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The Sox hired McKnight to help improve a broadcast that Awful Announcing's fan poll last July rated as the most disliked local call in MLB.

Rick Renteria was the manager, Luis Robert Jr. hadn’t yet played a major-league game and Yasmani Grandal and Dallas Keuchel ...