We can say that Farrell grinded his players, and should have given them time off, etc., but they only won the division by one game. If he gives Mookie or Xander or whoever time off, whose to say they even make the playoffs? I think the Sox won the East via smoke and mirrors, and the Yankees going through a couple of prolonged slumps as a team, but when the lights were on, and the Sox had to play a team like Houston, those flaws were clear to anyone watching, and I just have a hard time pinning all of that on Farrell. Like I said, he had to go. I was certainly not a fan, but I'm also not very optimistic about this team's future with DD at the helm. Hopefully, I'm proven wrong, but I don't think his track record is nearly as positive as some others do. The gutting of the farm system, which most of us certainly expected when he came in, is something we haven't felt yet, and I'll just never forgive him for allowing an entire season to play out with a Red Sox team in which not one guy hit 25 homers. It's 2017. Everyone hits 25 homers, and he couldn't find one to pick up the slack when Papi retired?.