Despite a Major League Baseball high $242 million player payroll, Boston never was competitive this season in its quest to defend last fall's World Series victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in five games.
Boston Red Sox president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski is out after his former club suffers through a disastrous 2019 season. In one of the most precipitous falls in Major League Baseball history, Dave Dombrowski is out as Boston Red Sox president of baseball operations, the club disclosed in the wee hours Monday morning.
The Red Sox have had three different men running baseball operations during that period starting with Theo Epstein and Ben Cherington. Dombrowski was canned by the Detroit Tigers during the 2015 season when he failed to create a World Series winner for them in 14-plus seasons, only to be hired by Boston to replace Cherington less than a month later.
The Red Sox have the top player payroll in the Major Leagues at $242 million, and are projected well above the $206 million luxury tax threshold. As a repeat offender, they will have to pay a 50% tax on the $36 million they spent above the threshold. Instead of rebuilding the bullpen, Dombrowski spent whatever money he had to re-sign pitcher Nathan Eovaldi and first baseman Steve Pearce, both World Series standouts this past fall. Plus, he extended starter Chris Sale.
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