John Farrell will not be fired. He will stay put. As quirky as Farrell has performed expect no change until the GM, Ben Cherington, is fired and replaced. The new GM will then put his own stamp on the team.
Farrell may have lost the clubhouse as meetings among the overpaid glitterati have surfaced to, no doubt, provide some semblance of excuse mechanism when the wheels eventually fall off. In the meantime Farrell can be Dead Man Walking.
Baseball is a what have you done lately sport and the Red Sox are on the verge of two disastrous seasons as in back-to-back basement.