There's definitely too many DH's on the club right now and while I still think Devers is solid defensively at 3B and can stay there at least another 5 years (yeah, he makes a lot of boneheaded plays but his range is impressive) so I'm not worried about him crowding the DH/1B cluster in the future if both JDM and Schwarber are here in '22.Ĭlick to expand.This seems like the case of Schwarber being a shiny new toy.
But JDM's politics are during the time of Twitter and social media so it makes him more obvious.īut is he still worth the contract he signed? What do you think he'll do at the end of the season? Is the opt-out mutual? In many ways, I wouldn't mind it all if the Sox were able to lock up Schwarber but let JDM go and just try another year with Dalbec at 1st until Casas is ready. along with Papelbon and Beckett and others). Sox have had plenty of other right wing nut jobs that I couldn't stand but was happy they were on the Sox (yeah I despised Schilling joining the Sox and his entire time here but was happy to have his performance. He's not the beast in the middle of the lineup that I was expecting but he's still damn good and am expecting him to get out of his slump any day now. I personally can't stand his politics but still like him as a player. I don't think there's a way to separate his politics and his performance here in how he's viewed. He's been in a shitty slump (along with Devers) that has really hurt the team but his bat (along with Devers) really carried the team the first half of the season. He's no longer in his prime but he's still a dangerous bat. but around Sox fandom? As in what's the sports talk radio's take on him too? He seems pretty generally disliked by SoSH despite still being a great very good hitter. What's the general take on him, not just here. Found this JDM discussion laying around and wanted to reanimate after some game thread comments last night.