The Sox continue to do this, no matter who is in charge. This is as funny as when they brought back our injury-prone guys early and told them to run the bases gingerly instead of at full speed.
EDIT: Haha, just now on the broadcast Brooke Fletcher said that Venable’s first step is to trust the player in the team’s injury assessment process. Meanwhile, posters in last night’s game thread immediately identified that Cannon’s velocity was down and something didn’t seem right.