Bogaerts and Devers: Going …. going …. gone?

Here’s a follow-up to my earlier post on Xander Bogaerts’ future with the Boston Red Sox:
News that Boston Red Sox shortstop Xander Bogaerts has opted out of his contract wasn’t a big surprise since all indications during the waning days of the 2022 season were that Bogaerts had been disappointed with the team’s efforts to redo his contract.
But now that Bogaerts is a free agent, don’t expect Chief Baseball Officer Chaim Bloom to really break a sweat trying to hold on to him or to extend third baseman Rafael Devers (who will be a free agent after the 2023 season) --- despite what Bloom told reporters at the Oct. 6 season-ending news conference about making signing Bogaerts and Devers the team’s top priorities.
Bloom had a month from the end of the season until the end of the World Series on Saturday night (Nov. 5), and he probably made no progress on Bogaerts' contract or else the most veteran player on the roster wouldn't have opted out. (Bogey joined the team as a rookie in August 2013.)
Bloom, who may never appreciate the kind of team that the Boston Red Sox have been considered for decades --- one that has traditionally held on to many of its homegrown superstars --- cornered the market on waiver-wire castoffs, including pitchers with bad ERAs, in the days after the season ended, but that’s about it.
Sox fans are justifiably afraid that Bloom will let the last two bona fide superstars on the Red Sox --- Bogaerts and Devers --- go, because Bloom, an otherwise brilliant baseball executive, has shown a disturbing tendency to be tone-deaf when it comes to holding on to the team's stud players.
That's sad, because Bloom has added a lot of prospects, some of whom may make a positive impact on the team's fortunes. But without cornerstone players such as Bogaerts and Devers, the Sox will be an inferior team.
That's why, if Bloom does let both Bogaerts and Devers go, fans should boycott the Red Sox and stop paying the most expensive ticket in MLB. We are not and never will be "Tampa Bay North!"
Owner John Henry had better wake up and start caring about more than the Fenway Sports Group --- which is contemplating selling the Liverpool soccer team, according to published reports --- before fans tune out what will be a vastly diminished team without Bogaerts and Devers.