Dave Dombrowski
Dave Dombrowski
David Dombrowskiis a professional baseball executive and currently the President of Baseball Operations for the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball. Dombrowski has previously served as the general manager of the Montreal Expos, and the general manager and president of the Florida Marlins and Detroit Tigers...
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Ideally we'd like to still have Kenny in the organization. He had a good season last year. Other pitchers are ahead of him at this point. We needed to create a roster spot.
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It's well deserved. He had a great season last year. We're happy to see him that honor.
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We've talked about having somebody at the back end of the bullpen. Todd has had a tremendous career, had a fantastic year last year. ... He's not only got the ability, but the experience that we know we need.
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If he had hit the way he did the last six weeks of last season, the fit would've been there. Right now, we haven't seen it.
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If he would've hit like he hit the last six weeks of the season, we would've found a spot for him.
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All the sudden, during the last six weeks, we didn't win many ballgames.
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We won a world championship with some high-maintenance ballplayers and he handled Barry Bonds (in Pittsburgh).
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When I talked to him about the various reasons, I'm sure none of them caught him by surprise because we've been discussing them.
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The time away from the game has helped him a great deal.
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People don't come to your games to see your manager. I can understand why some people will feel that this was based on Alan's popularity here. But really, we could not afford to make this decision based on that, because we need to right this ship.
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You have to realize that if you start making deals just based on public opinion, you're going to be in a lot of trouble.
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We are waiting to hear back on his situation.
We've had conversations, but I can't say more at this point.
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I think he's going to be fine. There's no reason to believe he won't be fine. We just can't take any chances with that.