SAN FRANCISCO — Rafael Devers made one point abundantly clear ahead of the Giants’ three-game series against his former team: He was not interested in talking about the past. Did Devers want to leave the Boston Red Sox? “ That’s in the past. Those are not decisions that I control.”

Devers largely stuck to his line about not wanting to discuss his final days in Boston, but he didn’t hide how pleased he was with the outcome.

If the buzzword of Monday evening’s post-trade videoconference with Red Sox president Sam Kennedy and chief baseball officer Craig Breslow was “alignment,” then the theme of Rafael Devers’ media