Jones & Keefe: Eventually, the Red Sox will need to address their logjam

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00:00If you want to upgrade the team, you still can.

00:02You don't have to trade Duran.

00:03But it does lead into a pretty interesting question

00:07that is going to have to be answered at some point by the Red Sox,

00:10and that is what do you do with all your outfielders for 2026 and beyond?

00:16Where do you go with Raffaella, Anthony, Duran, Abreu?

00:22I think for the rest of this year, let Cora figure it out.

00:26But you can't have all four of those guys on the roster, can you?

00:29Like starting next year?

00:30No, no.

00:31I mean, I guess it all depends on how you want to use your DH.

00:34Yeah.

00:34So that at least gives you a fourth body to work with

00:36and mix into a rotation of let this guy get some rest

00:39while this guy takes some hacks and stuff like that.

00:41So you can at least limit it to four

00:43if you want to keep the DH between those positions.

00:46Yeah, it's interesting because Cora had the comment about

00:49Roman Anthony's 21 years old.

00:51He can't be a DH right now.

00:53Right.

00:53But then you have Sadon Raffaella, who is a gold glove center fielder.

00:57You have Williard Abreu, who is a gold glove right fielder.

01:00And then Jaron Duran isn't great defensively,

01:03but he'd be a strange DH.

01:06Right?

01:06Like he's never even done that.

01:07Like you kind of want him in the field too, I guess.

01:09But I don't know.

01:10But that's the thing.

01:10We also come from a time where the DH were big hulkins.

01:13Just hulkins.

01:14I guess you could have.

01:14And it's just different how it is now with baseball where it's –

01:17I hate using the term positionless –

01:19where it's you get these little guys that can DH.

01:22It's not what it used to be.

01:22You used to – back in the day when we grew up,

01:24all your power came from the foul lines.

01:26It was the corners of each position, you know?

01:28And now you see, like, again, Duran as a DH, it doesn't feel right.

01:32Even Yoshida as a DH didn't feel right.

01:34As a slap hitter.

01:35Right.

01:35So, well, that's another guy that you still have on the roster for now too,

01:38which is sort of creating a – not necessarily a log jam,

01:41but you have players that want to

01:44and maybe should be in the lineup every day that can't be.

01:48I think we just stumbled onto something.

01:49Maybe Duran should be the DH.

01:50That way he doesn't have to worry about people yelling at him in the outfield.

01:53So you take that part of it out,

01:54and then you just let him work on hitting and running.

01:57Give him something to focus on.

01:58I think we figured it out.

01:58I think we cracked the case.

01:59Just solved the problem.

02:00Yeah.

02:00What a way to start the second half.

02:01There's your answer.

02:02Duran DH.

02:03Nailed it.

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