What should have been a happy weekend for Red Sox fans got turned upside down Sunday night.

Not long after the team had completed a three-game sweep of the rival New York Yankees, news came out that the team was trading three-time All-Star Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants.

In a post on the social media platform X, the team wrote, “Thank you for every homer, smile and Raffy moment.”

The bombshell trade moves one of the better Red Sox players in recent memory across the country, and leaves fans trying to figure out what’s next.

Although the trade was shocking, it was well reported that a rift had started to set in between Devers and the team. Earlier in the year, the team had asked Devers to move from third-base after Boston acquired third baseman Alex Bregman. Although he initially pushed back, he eventually agreed to be the designated hitter.

Then, after first baseman Triston Casas suffered an injury in a win over the Minnesota Twins in May, the team asked Devers to move to first-base. But he made it clear that wasn’t something he was going to do.

Devers, who signed with the team in 2013 and made his major league debut with Boston in 2017, was a homegrown star for the Sox. He was a member of the 2018 squad that won the World Series and won a Silver Slugger Award twice.

He’s picked up 215 regular season home runs so far in his career — including one Sunday against the Yankees.

The Sox acquired pitchers Kyle Harrison and Jordan Hicks in the trade. The also picked up minor leaguers James Tibbs III and Jose Bello.

Fenway Park was fairly quiet Monday with the team out of town on a West Coast trip. Standing outside the ball park on Jersey Street, Dan Nicolas, who is from Beverly, had mixed emotions about the trade.

“Overall, if you’re a $300 million player and you’re being asked to do something and you’re not doing something, you’re a bad example in the clubhouse,” Nicolas said. “We’ve got a lot of guys here that have a lot of baseball left in their careers and that’s not the guy to necessarily emulate, right? That being said, once again think the timing was horrific and I think the return on investment was horrific.”

Nicolas said this felt like a money dump on the part of management and doesn’t instill confidence in him going forward in how the team manages its talent.

Liam Donovan described himself as a lifetime Red Sox fan. He had reservations about what this means for the rest of the season.

“I think we’re just gonna be mediocre again. Maybe do another, like, 80 win, 81 win team, not do much. So I just think it’s just gonna be tough for us,” he said. “But yeah, preseason expectations were so much higher than what it’s gonna be now. So I mean, it wasn’t looking good, but it’s looking even worse now, I think.”

The Sox won’t have to wait long to take on Devers’ new team. They’ll scheduled to be in San Francisco for a three-game series starting Friday.