But they also stink since JH booted Dombrowski and Mookie and decided to start hiring CBOs with no experience and stuff like that. I think the problems started at the top.
You have no interest in learning about how it's calculated, Denny, you just want to crap on it, and that's never going to change, I fully realize that.
Cora is definitely on the hot seat now, but nobody really knows if he's actually the problem.
He's in his 7th season with the Sox. Francona only made it through 8, and he won 2 titles and never less than 86 games.
It means the answer to your question about Rafaela's defense offsetting his light hitting is yes.
An average WAR for an everyday player over a full season is about 2.0.
It's definitely a conundrum how to fit Anthony into the outfield.
If you were really desperate to do it and you don't want to trade Duran or Abreu, you could platoon Duran and Rafaela in center and work from there. Rafaela could also get some starts in the IF. Duran could play left when Anthony gets a rest.
Then you would need Anthony to make all the juggling worth it.
To me talent is kind of a fuzzy word when it comes to major league baseball. Talent only proves itself by performance, so performance is what counts.
But it does seem like this team is underperforming, and I have expressed my own suspicions that something is amiss in the approaches this organization has been using the last few years.
It's like the baseball gods have been having fun with us the last few years. We can't seem to assemble a roster that doesn't have a lot of missing and/or misfit pieces.