He seemed to calm down when the Sox made it past Tampa.Has anyone done a wellness check on @Rovin Romine?
Two games, but yea I’m super excited he’s backHe took a super flawed roster to within a game of the World Series. What more do you really want out of a manager? There's nobody they could bring in that is gonna be better than him.
That was always the marker for me. Handsome is as handsome does.He seemed to calm down when the Sox made it past Tampa.
I’d add that a manager without job security might have incentives that aren’t aligned with ownership — for example, he might ride pitchers too hard, not focus enough on the development of young players, etc.Not a surprise. One of the Sox hard-and-fast rules seems to be "don't ever have a manager in the final year of his contract" - the constant media attention to the "will he or won't he come back?" saga isn't worth the hassle. They obviously weren't going to fire him going into 2022, so they needed to extend him. Besides, manager contracts are the only contracts in baseball that don't cost anything other than money, so there's not much downside in using contract length to show support for the manager.