GM GONE FROM RED SOX, RED SOX GONE FROM POST-SEASON
By Murray Chass
September 29, 2019
The post-season is here, but the man who built the winner of last year’s post-season isn’t. The Boston Red Sox fired Dave Dombrowski as president of baseball operations September 9.
The decision by owners John Henry and Tom Werner was the latest in a series of questionable moves they have made with high-ranking personnel.
They fired manager Terry Francona in 2011 despite his pair of World Series championships in 2004 and 2007 after the Red Sox had not won a World Series in 86 years, and they pushed out Larry Lucchino as chief executive officer in 2015. Lucchino had joined Henry and Werner in their 2002 acquisition of the team.
My opinion doesn’t mean anything where the Red Sox are concerned, but in my opinion …
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LEMAHIEU OUI, TROUT NO
By Murray Chass
September 22, 2019
The Angels played the Yankees in New York last week, but their best player was only an observer in the visiting dugout.
“No Mike Trout,” viewers were informed by Michael Kay, the Yankees’ play-by-play announcer. “He’s going to have surgery and that will end his season. He was having some year, but he’s out with Norton’s neuroma, which is affecting the toe on the right foot. It’s not supposed to be a serious surgery, and he should recover in plenty of time for spring training, but it did cut short his season and now leaves open the question: Is he still the M.V.P.?”
Huh? When did Trout win this year’s American League most valuable player award? When and how did …
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A BOSTON BURIAL IN THE BRONX
By Murray Chass
August 4, 2019
Did someone say Boston Massacre? How about a Bronx Burial?
Although eight weeks remain in the season, as alive as the Red Sox seemed in trouncing the Yankees in the first three games of their series in Boston two weekends ago, they have since suffered a catastrophic collapse. They lost four games to the Yankees, the latest three at Yankee Stadium, and three to the Rays, emerging from the seven-game losing streak weak and wobbly.
After beating the Yankees three times at Fenway Park and slashing the Yankees’ lead over them to 8 games, the Red Sox plummeted 13 ½ games behind and looked feeble doing it.
The Red Sox have time to recover, but they don’t have the necessary ingredients to …
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