It's official:
Travis Shaw will start at third base and Pablo Sandoval will be on the bench. Lou Merloni is unloading on the Sox decision makers this morning for their decisions and all I can say is the Red Sox brought this on themselves. From the sidelines it appears as if the manager is grasping at straws to save his job. This weakness has given more power to Dave Dombrowski, who has put himself
front and center on this subject. Now bringing Mr Dombrowski on in the first place is a whole other conversation, and I applaud them for handing the keys to a strong baseball guy, but the day to day lineup has to be the manager's decision. I don't really understand it, but the clubhouse is a sacred place. Ownership and management meddling has been the source of a ton of problems for my Red Sox in recent years and this Shaw/Panda decision feels more like a Dombrowski decision than a Farrell one.
Now the doors are open and the flood is coming. Let's question the rotation decisions, the lineup decisions, the bullpen decisions, question everything! There is a power vacuum and it's throwing things out of whack.
Pedroia's upset, and he's just the first to go on the record about it. They know Farrell is weak, they can see he's a dead man walking, they just can't say it, so what are the Red Sox waiting for? The season to go down the drain? How do we think Papi's going to react when there's minimal ink on his farewell season? Rip the band-aid folks,
you have a ringer sitting right there. Give Lovullo the keys and get on with the business of playing ball.
Until Next Time,
The SAHD
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