Buster Olney (ESPN) reports that there an "industry perception of the Red Sox as a chaotic company, a miserable place to work".
Boston owner John Henry needs to understand this, because it is why some of the people he'd probably love to consider as possible replacements for [Dave] Dombrowski privately dismiss the idea out of hand.
A wide-held view in other front offices is that the highly respected and well-liked Red Sox president Sam Kennedy stands as a thin buffer between the team devolving to the level of the Mets, the team generally regarded by rival executives as baseball's model for dysfunction.