Patience is already running thin in Boston.
According to Jeff Passan of ESPN, the Red Sox have fired Dave Dombrowski as president of baseball operations, one year after winning the World Series.
The Red Sox will elevate senior vice president Raquel Ferreira and assistant general managers Eddie Romero, Brian O'Halloran and Zack Scott to run the team's baseball operations department together for the remainder of the season.
The move comes almost immediately after Boston dropped the third game of a four-game set against the New York Yankees on Sunday night. If the Yankees beat the Red Sox again on Monday, they will officially eliminate Boston from AL East title contention.
Boston originally hired Dombrowski back in 2015. His contract ran through 2020, but due to a disappointing 2019 campaign that will likely see the Red Sox miss the playoffs, the franchise decided to make a change.
Manager Alex Cora was blindsided by the news:
“This is a guy that gave me a chance to come here and be a big league manager,” Cora, who was hired before the 2018 season, said. “It's one of those things that caught me. They just told me, so I'm not ready to talk about it.”
Dombrowski landed numerous big names during his relatively short stint as president, bringing in players such as Chris Sale, Craig Kimbrel, J.D. Martinez and David Price.
The moves paid off last season, but this year, things have unraveled.
Kimbrel departed to the Chicago Cubs, and Price has been an overall disappointment in spite of his $217 million deal. Sale has dealt with elbow issues all season, and Nathan Eovaldi, whom the Red Sox signed to a four-year deal during the offseason, has spent most of the year on the injured list.
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