This guy has put on an absolute GM clinic from the time he was hired through today.
He took over a team that was about to finish DFL in the division for the second straight year and immediately turned it around. His teams have finished first in all 3 years he's been here and this year's team is as complete a team as you are ever going to see anywhere, not just in terms of talent and production but especially in terms of fitting together in every way and being completely focused on winning.
Dombrowski has been a godsend to the Boston Red Sox. He hasn't got too much love around here for a guy who just comes in first all the time and who has just put together the best team in the history of the franchise. It's time for him to get some props and respect for the job he's done.
Look at what he's done here, it's insane. He inherited a very good core and farm system, but there was so much more work to be done.
He gave all that money to David Price and took so much heat for it, but Price has now earned every penny of it.
He traded multiple prospects for a reliever, but Kimbrel has produced so much more than those prospects ever would have here. He traded more even higher rated prospects for Sale, but is there a Red Sox fan out there who wishes they could undo that trade? He brought in JD Martinez, who transformed the lineup by being the middle of the order bat that was so needed, on a good contract, and Martinez has fit this team so well in every way.
He inherited a manager who had won a World Series and who then won 2 straight titles, but he knew they needed a change and he made it. He would have been buried for that if the Red Sox had a bad year this year, but he had the guts to fire a successful manager and chose a replacement who had never managed in the US before, and it paid of amazingly well.
He made moves like giving 2 years to Moreland that were mostly panned on here, myself included, but Moreland's HR turned the World Series around.
He brought in Ryan Brasier on a minor league contract, and when Brasier showed he had the potential, he brought him to the majors instead of trading for a veteran reliever who might have blocked him.
With little salary space and no prospects, he brought in Eovaldi and Pearce-- what more needs to be said about those moves?
Here's the big picture: he took this franchise from back to back last place finishes to 3 straight first place finishes (for the first time in the history of the franchise) topped off by putting together the best team in the history of the franchise and winning it all, going 11-3 in the postseason.
He has been fantastic, and he deserves more love, especially on a message board where it seems like 90% of us are GM fanboys who can only look at baseball while pretending as if we were a GM ourselves. Dombrowski is a real GM, and he has shown he is an absolute master and deserves a ton of respect and admiration for what he's done here.
About time we show this man some love and respect for what he's delivered to us!
He took over a team that was about to finish DFL in the division for the second straight year and immediately turned it around. His teams have finished first in all 3 years he's been here and this year's team is as complete a team as you are ever going to see anywhere, not just in terms of talent and production but especially in terms of fitting together in every way and being completely focused on winning.
Dombrowski has been a godsend to the Boston Red Sox. He hasn't got too much love around here for a guy who just comes in first all the time and who has just put together the best team in the history of the franchise. It's time for him to get some props and respect for the job he's done.
Look at what he's done here, it's insane. He inherited a very good core and farm system, but there was so much more work to be done.
He gave all that money to David Price and took so much heat for it, but Price has now earned every penny of it.
He traded multiple prospects for a reliever, but Kimbrel has produced so much more than those prospects ever would have here. He traded more even higher rated prospects for Sale, but is there a Red Sox fan out there who wishes they could undo that trade? He brought in JD Martinez, who transformed the lineup by being the middle of the order bat that was so needed, on a good contract, and Martinez has fit this team so well in every way.
He inherited a manager who had won a World Series and who then won 2 straight titles, but he knew they needed a change and he made it. He would have been buried for that if the Red Sox had a bad year this year, but he had the guts to fire a successful manager and chose a replacement who had never managed in the US before, and it paid of amazingly well.
He made moves like giving 2 years to Moreland that were mostly panned on here, myself included, but Moreland's HR turned the World Series around.
He brought in Ryan Brasier on a minor league contract, and when Brasier showed he had the potential, he brought him to the majors instead of trading for a veteran reliever who might have blocked him.
With little salary space and no prospects, he brought in Eovaldi and Pearce-- what more needs to be said about those moves?
Here's the big picture: he took this franchise from back to back last place finishes to 3 straight first place finishes (for the first time in the history of the franchise) topped off by putting together the best team in the history of the franchise and winning it all, going 11-3 in the postseason.
He has been fantastic, and he deserves more love, especially on a message board where it seems like 90% of us are GM fanboys who can only look at baseball while pretending as if we were a GM ourselves. Dombrowski is a real GM, and he has shown he is an absolute master and deserves a ton of respect and admiration for what he's done here.
About time we show this man some love and respect for what he's delivered to us!