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Basically sounds Dombrowski is looking for someone he already knows will agree with him.
tsolid 2
So he can hire his Buddy Wren, the most unpleasant GM to work for in baseball.
VermontsFinest
Have you ever worked for him? I didn’t think so. Just because someone writes about a person in a negative sense, doesn’t mean they’re the “most unpleasant GM”.
tsolid 2
I Read MULTIPLE articles from his time with Braves and how many people LEFT when he was there and how he treated people. Hiring his unqualified brother as a ML scout and so forth. I guess everyone is lying, right?
VermontsFinest
There’s a lot of people who get bad “pub” for one reason or another. But if he is that bad of a person to work for, he wouldn’t be working the position he is, or even be considered in Boston for that matter.
staypuft
Do you have sources?
Also, maybe one or two people had a vendetta against him and told bs stories to a couple of writers. People will print anything these days.
sfgfan10121416
Not Everyone!!!! Just the people that wrote the articles!!!
fatmaneatsalot
just pretty much garentees frank wren is going to become the gm
petfoodfella
Bobby Cox spent a lot of time away, as did Aaron, until Wren was gone. Then they came back and are around more often.
vinscully16
The role of GM is rapidly regressing toward an advisory role. The chain of command is shifting and, even in baseball, bureaucracy rules.
Macburns
Much like Atkins in Toronto, the Red Sox GM position is just a place to build a resume. DD makes every decision that matters.
AndThisGameBelongsToMySanDiegoPadres
It doesn’t really matter. DD is the one calling the shots in Boston.
robf13
The biggest loss will be Lovullo. Farrell’s in game management skills will do him in eventually.
johnsilver
Not sure can agree with that. Read a story yesterday on WeEI believe it was where Alex Cora was one of the people who *might* have a chance to take the bench coach position should Lovullo leave and was a possibility had he left in 2013.
Cora was considered future manager material during his playing days, manages in PR during the winter and is very knowledgeable of the game. I always liked the guy and he’s the one also would like to see take his place should Lovullo leave.
bradthebluefish
I’m with robf13 that the biggest loss will be Lovullo. The way he worked the roster when Farrell had surgery was simply fantastic!
However, great to hear the Alex Cora could save the day should Farrell continues to be a mediocre manager.
hanks1hammer
There’s a lot of Braves fans on this article and the previous one like it ready to be the paulbearer for the Red Sox if Wren becomes the GM. I admit I was ready to post a short, quick message heralding the decimation of the Red Sox. Though I don’t agree that the GM position will be meaningless, I imagine Dombrowski will be more than a preventative measure to Wren wrecking the farm and signing complete train wrecks of contracts.
Dombrowski had a very successful tenure in Detroit. His firing from them means little to me as it seems most GM’s get fired if they hold their post long enough. Probably a lot of fans remember Dombrowski trading young talent in an attempt to extend Detroit’s dominance but that was only the last year of a very successful time in the Tigers recent history. It might be that Dombrowski leading the ship allows Wren to concentrate on what he is good at, whatever that might be.
jbravo17
I get that most fans don’t follow closely the GM of other teams, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. Dombrowksi did a lot of long-term, slow-bleed damage to the Tigers organization, and if you go back to his start of that tenure, it already mirrors what’s happening in Boston.
The only glaring difference is that the financial resources are greater, and he inherited a winner instead of a 100+ loss roster of bad contracts.
Implementing Frank Wren as your GM, regardless of who is or isn’t calling the shots (it’s largely fable that Dombrowski relies on no one, by the way), is a bad indicator of the mindset of whoever is in charge.
baseballfan1945
Having seen how Wren decimated the Atlanta Braves and changed a once perennial contender in the worst team in baseball, DD should reconsider placing Wren in the position to do this in Boston regardless of how tight a rein DD has on baseball operations. Friendship and business do not go together anymore than gasoline and fire.
piersall55
Whether DD is a savior is yet to be determined. The one constant in he 2012,2014 and 2015 disasters was upper management, primarily Luccino and his meddling and back stabbing that ultimately sent Theo to the Cubs. Ownership is to be blamed for the big unrealistic contracts. No 20+ million a year contract can be offered unless the owner OK’s it. The next 12 months will show if Boston is advancing or spinning its wheels.