I hear what you're saying. I don't think anyone fully understands what causes all the hot and cold streak stuff. My attitude is that managers get paid to make these decisions, and on a major league ballclub I assume they are getting a lot of statistical and anecdotal input that we don't necessarily have.
The only explanation I can see is that they're giving Holt a full opportunity to turn it around after being out so long. If he keeps floundering they really do have to cut him loose fairly soon.
He did have a clutch hit off Robertson last night that didn't pay off, unfortunately.
We have a number of guys who are underperforming so you can't pin it all on one guy.
What also got kind of buried in this story is that, for better or worse, there appear to be some genuine hard feelings toward Eckersley in the Sox clubhouse going back a few years, as documented by the picture with JBJ thing.