Only 3 are major leaguers capable of playing every day. The 4th major leaguer can only play twice a week. The rest of them should have to buy a ticket to get into Fenway for pennant chase baseball. Pray that Drew doesn't tweak one of the 10 or 20 parts of his body that he has been known to tweak. Pray that Ellsbury pops up after each of his diving catches without a limp or shaking an arm. If one of those things happens, a huge black hole will appear in the Red Sox lineup that would have a huge negative impact on the run production of the team. The OF is a thin as it was before.
But we have 3 first basemen, and Tito insists on giving the singles hitting Kotchman playing time at the expense of Lowell who has been crushing. This is to compound the effect of giving Tek ABs at Lowell's expense.