That Schwarber took off was sort of an unknown, by which I mean a complete unknown. After 2021, Schwarber was 28 with a career OPS of .836 (119 OPS+) Dalbec was 26 with a career OPS of .819 (114 OPS+)
I don’t know how much that all mattered to the Sox FO. But there were similarities at the time. Dalbec’s sample was much smaller for a guy only 2 years younger, which would have also been taken into account…