Frankly, he should have never been hired.
#bringbackben
That said, should he be fired for the way the team has performed (or not performed) over the last two years? No. Dombrowski did his job of assembling a contending team. He can't control how the players perform on the field.
If you review history you can see that our franchise has made a series of grave mistakes that commenced in 2011. We had the best general manager and the best manager in baseball and they are now in other cities showing how it's done.
Well, you know I'm not a fan of Dombrowski's philosophy, in particular the depleted farm and the impending cliff, so you're mostly preaching to the choir on that. Part of the reason that I'm not a fan of the 'win now' philosophy is that it guarantees nothing, and then you're left with nothing but the cliff. We could be as good as the Indians are right now, and we would still be guaranteed nothing.
I can get on board for firing Dombrowski because I don't like his philosophy. However, the playoffs being the crap shoot that they are, I can't get on board with firing Dombrowski because of two early playoff exits, if indeed we do exit early this year. (It's not over yet!)
Exiting early would be extremely disappointing, but Dombrowski really can't control that.
As much as I felt Ben deserved a 5 year term to let his plan play out, I feel the same towards DD.
Like you, I disagreed with emptying the farm to such a large extent, and I felt we'd have made the playoffs with ben at the helm the last two years. That is what some posters seem to only want- at least that's what I thought they wanted.
Now that we are on the brink of being knocked out early and decisively, it seems just being competitive was not enough.
I can see the argument that DD built this team for a 3-4 year window for rings- not just making the playoffs, and our post season performance has been a let down, but the guy deserves at least 4 years to play out.
One could argue DD deserves less time than Ben, since his plan was for immediate results, while Ben's was for the longer haul, but not just 2 years.
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Many of this team's issues date back to decisions from the Cherington era, from the Sandoval and Ramirez contracts to (I would argue) the botching of the Lester and Lackey trades in 2014. Right now you can fault Dombrowski for not adding a power bat last winter and for trading Shaw, but that's about it. On the other hand, we wouldn't even be in it this year without Dave's additions (Kimbrel, Sale, and Pomeranz primarily).
I would think Dave's job is not even close to being in jeopardy at this point.
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