The San Francisco Giants pulled off the most shocking trade of the Major League Baseball season on Sunday night, obtaining three-time All-Star slugger Rafael Devers from the Boston Red Sox as part of a five-player swap.

Rafael Devers' long-term position for the Giants remains a huge question mark following his arrival from the Red Sox.

Friends, we gather here today to mourn the passing of the "Break-Even Ball" era of the San Francisco Giants. It lasted the better part of a decade, a disenfranchising malaise of sound financial decisions and bore-inducing transactions designed to make the most fiscal sense for Giants ownership at the expense of the on-field product.