They *have* to launch TLR just so someone else has a chance to salvage those three guys. If they all end up busts then nothing really matters as this team goes nowhere.
How petty and small do you have to be to tattle to Bob about your old team out of nowhere? Especially since you are no longer there because you yourself were awful and gave them no choice but to pay you to go away?
Oh I’m not advocating selling low. Merely stating that the Sox aren’t stuck with his contract. I still have slight hope that after another injury plagued season someone gets through to him to take his conditioning seriously.
As is his bat doesn’t being enough value to DH. But playing LF doubles the opportunity for injury. If he’s never healthy it doesn’t matter how good or bad his bat is, or could be.