Given the way their clubhouse unraveled last season, with sensitive lefty David Price running the joint from his sick bed, the Red Sox were a year too late making a managerial change.
They should have fired John Farrell after the 2016 season and everyone knows it.
Beyond that, there’s no need returning to the butchery. As long as Farrell is nowhere near a lineup card or a bullpen phone, the man deserves a role in baseball.
He’s an intelligent, well-spoken man, and let’s not ever forget he survived a bout with cancer. He knows a thing or two about getting up off the canvas and returning to the fray.