Looking back at Dan Duquette’s legacy with the Red Sox

Dan Duquette at his introductory press conference in 1994Roughly 20 years ago, a group led by John Henry and Tom Werner bought the Boston Red Sox, a move that is probably the most accurate marker as the beginning of the current era of Red Sox baseball, one that has seen more success than any perhaps in franchise history, and at least in since the 1920s. The first move made by that ownership was to move on from their general manager, with Dan Duquette being let go on this day in 2002. Duquette’s legacy in Boston is a complicated one, but as we are now two decades out from its end, I thought it was worth taking a little bit of a closer look at it and how he helped lay down the foundation for what Theo Epstein and those who have followed him have built into one of the great franchises in the sport.

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