Bob Nightingale is USA Today sports major league baseball columnist.

He joins us on the 18T expert hotline.

Mr. Nightingale, always a pleasure, sir.

Yeah, my pleasure.

Thank you, guys.

We appreciate it.

All right, so I don't know if you heard, but John Farrell was fired.

And we're talking about, people are talking about potential candidates to take over his job.

Brad Osmus, according to the Boston Globe, they're ranking him as the number one candidate,

is obviously a history with Dumbowski.

This seems to me like a bad idea.

What are your feelings on Brad Osmus? I mean, I like Brad, a sharp guy, but that would surprise me a lot just because, you know, it didn't work in Detroit. Right. So if they didn't work in Detroit, why are you going to bring him to Boston? People thought, you know, Brad was going to be fired, you know, a year ago or two years ago.

So that would be a little bit of a stunner.

You know, even though he hired in the first place, it didn't work in Detroit.

How would you describe the way Brad Osmus runs his clubhouse, the way his style of managing?

You know, I mean, he was second, you know, it happens a lot of places, but he was second-guess a lot of Detroit.

Did not have a good relationship with the media there, just for a, you know, a lot of second-guessing and things like that on managerial moves.

I think he was well-like in the clubhouse.

I mean, a young guy, a sharp guy.

So I don't think the clubhouse was any problem.

It was just a, you know, the aches and pains of being a first-time manager.

Yeah, he was loved in the clubhouse because apparently he was a very laissez-faire attitude in the clubhouse.

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