Sox name Eddie Romero senior vice president/assistant general manager.

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The Red Sox have named Eddie Romero their senior vice president/assistant general manager.
10/25/16, 9:58 AM

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The Red Sox have promoted Eddie Romero to assistant general manager. Romero had headed up their international amateur scouting operation.
10/25/16, 9:58 AM

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Romero and Brian O'Halloran will be the chief lieutenants to Dave Dombrowski. No GM will be named, the team announced.
10/25/16, 9:59 AM
 

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So the hierarchy is Dombrowski makes every MLB decision and he farms out his two assistants for contract negotiations (O'Halloran) and international (Romero).
 

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Speier: http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/redsox/2016/10/25/making-sense-red-sox-front-office-changes/0wnr1qpcgOY7EwPxyzWOqN/story.html
■ Are the Red Sox at risk of suffering a competitive disadvantage? The tendency in recent years has been towards front-office expansion, with the dual president of baseball operations/GM role becoming the industry standard. Indeed, all four of the teams in the League Championship Series – Chicago, Los Angeles, Cleveland, and Toronto – feature that dual structure. So what are the implications if the Sox do not take such an approach?

■ Given that Hazen and Sawdaye both felt their best chances for career growth were to leave the Red Sox organization, are the Red Sox under Dombrowski at risk of either a brain drain or, longer-term, a situation where executives look more aggressively for other opportunities, in a way that will impact the ability to sustain philosophical continuity at all levels of the organization?

■ Will the Sox’ preparations for the 2017 draft be adversely affected? While director of amateur scouting Mike Rikard – whose first two drafts in that role have received high marks – remains, between the departures of former amateur scouting director Sawdaye and assistant director of amateur scouting Steve Sanders (who was hired as Toronto’s director of amateur scouting), the Sox have lost key personnel.

■ With Cherington, Hazen, and Sawdaye – all strong advocates of a player development-centric model of roster-building – having left in a span of roughly 14 months, will the Sox’ approach to trades and the short-term vs. long-term calculus alter?