Sounds like he quit before he was demoted or fired. I bet he has a standing offer to join Theo and Jed in Chicago before the night is out.
Apparently Cherington will assist in the transition period, which I find interesting. I love the hire as a Red Sox fan. They made some very questionable moves in the last year to say the least.
From what the Twitters say, it sounds like they wanted him to stay on in his current GM position, with DD effectively filling the portion of the Lucchino spot involved with baseball. Whether that would have been a demotion depends on the truth behind the rumors of just how much influence Lucchino really had. Either way, Cherington wasn’t interested, and I do think someone in need of a farm system rebuild will grab him this offseason.
The big questions now are who they get as GM (Wren is rumored and would be a disaster, DiPoto is currently working with the team and would be great), and how they handle the manager spot (a new GM almost always wants his guy, but how do you tactfully fire the guy who just got diagnosed with cancer if the docs say he can start next season on the bench?).
The Giants brought Madison Bumgarner in as a pinch hitter. He got a single.
Today was the first time in 21 games the Jays starter gave up more than three earned runs, in spite of which they won anyway.
Toronto demoted Aarop Loup to get right handed bat Matt Hague from the minors. Had they simply done this two weeks ago they could have kept Danny Valencia, who is far better than Hague. Say what you will about the big trades but they’ve made several truly stupid moves at the same time. I still think they’re the best team in the division but they’d be better with Valencia.
There’s obviously been a lot of tension between Lucchino and Theo/Ben over the years, resulting in some erratic decision-making. Clearing them all out is probably a good idea, and Dombrowski is probably the ideal choice out there as long as he has full authority over the baseball side.
Ben probably knew he was getting shoved aside when they brought in DiPoto to “assist” him.
The fact that Bumgarner was the best pinch hitting option at that point says more about the Giants bench, than anything else.
See what I said above about 2 Giants outfielders being on the DL? The 3rd one just joined them. But the backup catcher came off, so there’s that.
Boston media twitterverse saying Red Sox ownership met with Dombrowski last Thursday in Chicago but didn’t tell Ben Cherington anything until Saturday. I don’t like that one bit. The guy has worked himself to the bone for the team the last 16 years, he deserves better than that. I feel like Jed Hoyer is the only front office loss in the last 10 years who didn’t leave with lingering rancor on either side.
Yes, that’s dishonorable. If you’ve decided to get rid of a guy, get rid of him right away, don’t put a new boss over him to make him either quit or get fired.
Very few *players *leave the Red Sox without some bitchy rumor, generally false, getting planted in the media about him, either. Maybe the lack of that around Cherington’s departure (so far) just shows it was Lucchino doing that all along?
Blah, blah, blah. Red Sox. Who cares? Maybe next year, maybe another 86 year drought. 
I’m enjoying late August, watching the Yankees but also obsessively checking the scoreboard to see the Blue Jay and Oriole scores. I don’t believe in this team exactly; they’re too reminiscent of the 2012 crew. Still, it’s the age of parity and killer bullpens in the AL, and with BAM (Betances and Miller) the Yanks are competitive late. I honestly expected them to fade away in June, but maybe between Tanaka, Pineda, Nova and Severino, they can spin some October magic.
Let’s go. Yankees.
Yes, go, Yankees. And take the Cardinals with you.
Hey so the Dodgers traded for Utley. Haven’t seen what they are giving up (2 minor leaguers, but they haven’t said which) as long as it isn’t anyone major this is kind of ok. Utley has been hitting again recently, if that’s real he might help the team out hit the tire fire of a bullpen.
It’s a shame Chase Utley didn’t go to the Yankees to join Chase Headley and Chase Whitley. Oh well, maybe when he’s a free agent.
Perhaps he’ll sign onto the NASCAR circuit and Chase for the Cup.
Except how many people are involved in the hiring of their boss? Sure, it would have been nice to at least Ben know that this was happening, and I understand why he feels left out, but the fact of the matter is ownership was looking to hire Ben’s supervisor, and Ben’s role in 3 last place finishes in 4 years may well have been a point of discussion.
But that fourth year … wow. It’s really impossible to understand.
Cherington’s input would have had no bearing on the hiring of Dombrowski so I don’t think they were obligated to tell him squat.
The Florida Marlins’ approach to baseball ;).
Man, I don’t get the Dodgers right now.
We’ve got a dumpster fire in the bullpen and instead we pick up another infielder where we’re doing ok if not spectacular. I know we’ve got a minor leaguer who’s supossed to be the next great thing but I’m worried that by not calling him up to play short now he’s really just crazy over rated.
I don’t have high expectations for this year with hopw terrible our pitching staff ( non-kershaw/grenke division is doing) but damn is it too much to ask to spend the money on where the problem is?
The question is, who would you spend it on? What relievers are on the market that are better than what is in the pen? The pen is a problem, though a recent fangraphs article would seem to indicate that it’s as much bad luck as anything, but how do you fix it? Trade Seager for Chapman? That’s a Ned Colletti move. Don’t do it.
As far as the infield goes. Hernandez is great, sure, but he is playing over his head right now (as is Turner if we are being honest) and the Dodgers got Utley for essentially free. They traded players who were going to end up getting rule 5ed anyway. Seager isn’t a 2nd baseman and calling him up now is a waste, he’s really young. I think Kendrick is probably hurt worse than they had let on, but even so Utley for not much is a pretty good deal and it’s not like the offence couldn’t use some help. Sine his DL stint he has been hitting like his old self again (small sample I know, but still) and if that’s real it’s huge. While it’s bad to blow the 4 run leads, a lot of the bullpen meltdowns have been in close games where the offense wasn’t performing well enough either. More runs would have smothered the tire fire.