Tigers fire Dombrowski

[Rock Strongo]

its done

 

[molsaniceman]

give them cherington

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Word is he may be taking the Jays' president spot.

Soooo couldn't he have let us keep Norris last week???

 

[Villain]

I'd expect the Angels to go after him.

 

[HammerDown]

AJ Preller to the Tigers?

 

[Blitzville]

give them cherington

Boston needs to hire Dave and demote Ben Cherington to cleaning the men's room urinals where he belongs.

 

[redseat]

odd timing of the firing. Heard on the radio his son was shagging fly balls in the outfield, he came onto field, yanked his son and walked out.

 

[redseat]

"I've decided to release Dave from his contract in order to afford him the time to pursue other career opportunities," owner Mike Ilitch said in a statement. "I feel this is the right time for the Tigers to move forward under new leadership."

 

[tducey]

He'll find work relatively soon I figure. Still this is for the best for the Tigers and Dombrowski

 

[redseat]

Why Dave Dombrowski deserves to get paid more like a player than a typical GM - Yahoo Sports

More than catcher or shortstop or starting pitcher, the general manager is the single most vital asset in baseball, the person with the greatest ability to make and break an organization. Because they wear suits instead of uniforms and operate inside offices instead of before tens of thousands, GMs make a fraction of what their employees do, one of the rare jobs where bosses are compensated so disproportionately with those they hand-pick.

If anyone can change that calculus, it is Dave Dombrowski, the first marquee free agent from the Class of 2015 to hit the market. The Detroit Tigers let Dombrowski go Tuesday afternoon, a move that divorces one of the most successful executives of his generation from the team he rescued from the doldrums and led to a pair of American League pennants and four consecutive postseason appearances.



Detroit's success cemented Dombrowski's place in the upper echelon of executives and as the most successful of his generation. Dombrowski ran the Montreal Expos at 31, won a championship with the Florida Marlins and navigated a 119-loss Tigers team into an annual powerhouse with an unmatched ability to win big trades and a knack for building a team around stars.

Because of that, Dombrowski inhabits a unique niche among his peers: He carries himself with the air of an owner, the baseball knowledge of a great scout and the humility of a low-level operations person. Dombrowski, 59, is the proto-executive, and the $3 million or so he was making with the Tigers could be a fraction of what he gets if resetting the market for executives is at all a consideration.

The perfect market exists for Dombrowski to do just that. The Toronto Blue Jays have spent nearly a year hunting for a new CEO with Paul Beeston's impending retirement, and multiple sources said the Blue Jays have asked questions about Dombrowski during a behind-the-scenes search. With Larry Lucchino gone, Boston could seek a baseball-operations head to match Sam Kennedy on the business side. The Los Angeles Angels need a GM. That's one team with an entire country to itself, another with among the game's richest histories and a third in an enormous market. Which is to say nothing of Seattle or Milwaukee or whatever other jobs may come open.

 

[dougplayer]

got us 2 good young leftys before he got the hook..not bad

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

Can someone tell why Dombrowski is revered? He was the GM of a team that spent significantly more than their divisional rivals, yet usually barely won the division - and we're talking about a division that until this year has been among the worst in baseball.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm not overly impressed.

 

[Fountain City Blues]

Can someone tell why Dombrowski is revered? He was the GM of a team that spent significantly more than their divisional rivals, yet usually barely won the division - and we're talking about a division that until this year has been among the worst in baseball.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm not overly impressed.

I am starting to buy this view on him more and more these past two years.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

I am starting to buy this view on him more and more these past two years.

I don't think he's that great at all. Maybe even bad. If people think he's so amazing because he won a shitty division four years in a row by outspending his rivals, they should be sucking Cashman's dick.

 

[Fountain City Blues]

I don't think he's that great at all. Maybe even bad. If people think he's so amazing because he won a shitty division four years in a row by outspending his rivals, they should be sucking Cashman's dick.

Yep- and good GM's don't trade peak value Doug Fister for Robbie Ray, a UIF, and crummy reliever. (Ray and Lombardozzi have since been traded)

Ray, meanwhile, is surprisingly doing quite well with the Diamondbacks.