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Great piece Dr. D.  The Figgins affair is continuing to sink to lower depths. 
What to do with Chone?  Well I believe the fates of Figgins and Z are linked together.  Z has doubled down on Figgins – not requiring Chone to apologize publicly after the dugout incident.  Z has burned up so much of his political capital this year: horrible losing record, firing his hand picked manager, several of his off season signings/decisions bombing this year,…
Therefore he has handcuffed himself to Figgins.  I find it difficult to believe that Jack will be allowed to eat enough of Chone’s salary in order to trade him.  And if he did request such action it would be tantamount announcing he made a $36Mil mistake less than a year into a 4yr deal – I’m sure this would render him completely impotent in the eyes of the ownership and a search for a new GM would begin shortly thereafter.
I will give Chone some credit though he has at least shown a little more life with the bat over the last couple of weeks – he has become a little more aggressive at the plate with his hits increasing and walks decreasing some.  This new approach has played out with an increased batting average for the month (he does remain powerless).  It remains to be seen if his new approach has legs and will carry thru to the end of the season and even if it does we are still looking at a sub 700 OPS player for $9M/yr – I don’t see the value.