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No one is saying trade him, release him, or DFA him. Just bench him. For one game. Patience is something the Sox cannot afford right now….

Maybe Boone just has some really compromising picture of Cashman…

Since it’s a discussion about rum, can I assume that in your request about Schwarber, “DFA” means “Drink, Fat Ass!!”

Hicks is on the books for $40 mill over the next 4 seasons...

JD is producing rum? Time for shots and Cowboy up!!!

But then he'd hire him back next week. You need to let go of this image that as owners go, George was anything less than unstable and unpredictable...

See? I knew he was the better name...

Schwarber gets on base a ton and keeps the line moving. There is absolutely value in that...

Duran and Darwinzon Hernandez to Oakland for Bassitt and Trivino. BTV accepts it. Also, only 2 D's...

Interestingly, his .217 OBP is less than Renfroe's...

At the very least, if you keep instant replay, stop using to see if a sliding base-runner breaks contact with the base for an infinitesimal period of time...

He was put in a rough situation in 2021 and did not respond well. But it does seem like he is a talented player and can and will adjust as he needs to...

Also among the Oaland A's pending arbitration cases is Lou Trivino. They will deal him somewhere. Book it...

But at least Schwarber is hitting. Renfroe was given ample opportunity and has simply not been...

Possible, but the pitch clock is already in the rules...

One of Houck or Whitlock can close. The other will probably become a starter...

I say start with balls and strikes - easily the toughest calls an official in any sport has to make - and let's see how things go from there before any industry-wide automated umpiring changes sweep the league..

Yes, he put that deck chair on a part of the Titanic with a better view of the iceberg. But then, once Sale and ERod went down, that was for our benefit as fans. After all, what better way to make a 60 game season feel like a full 162 than to subject us to more Ryan Weber?

Agreed. Renfore's .421 OPS and singular RBI in this series might need to take a seat on the bench, Dalbec at 1B, Schwarber in LF, Verdugo in RF...

They're all into Squid Game right now..

But he didn't go drop $18mill on a closer!!!

It is possible that a roster spot can be considered a "hole" despite having a player occupying said role. JBJ has been frequently called such by a lot of fans. Chavis always really deserved that title as well. You listed Ryan Weber, for example. I would argue all day that is a hole in the roster right there...

Umpire discretion as to whether or not the batter offered at the pitch. Some check swings involve a batter spinning out of the way of a pitching riding up and in on them. If you make a "head of the bat breaks the plane of the plate" rule, some of those might be considered swings and therefore strikes. Does that make sense?

But they shouldn't. There are no rules to determine a swing beyond "an offering at any pitch that is not a bunt." Giving the robot umps that type of power would necessitate a rule change. The job of the umpires is to interpret and enforce the rules, not to write them...

And how many blank checkbooks has he been handed? Don't forget when he took over, the Sox had some $300 million tied up in Price, Sale and Eovladi, and the oft-injured Eovaldi was looking like the healthiest of the three. Not to mention the whole Betts situation, where he was reportedly adamant aboiut not signing any extension that didn't break some sort of record. And after all that, there were still 21 (now 22) other roster spots to fill. And all this for a team that won 84 games and missed the post-season. (And was only 6 games better than Cherington's last place 2015 team.) Was he supposed to keep pumping money into it and hope it all somehow came together? Not to mention, the whole narrative of "he has only managed small market teams and doesn't know how to manage big ones" is patently false. Not one small market GM in MLB history has gone to a large market team and kept his small market budget (without being told to do so). When Dan Duquette came over from Montreal, did he keep spending like he still ran the Expos? (If anything, one could argue that what Duquette did not know how to do was spend responsibly.)