I was going to save this for the off-season, but with 2Demeter2’s fantastic blog yesterday on the Technological Advances in Player Development, I put this blog on the “fast track.” So let me start with this: I am not sure how it all worked out, but I can tell you that in the past, I have fired people, but we agreed privately (for the sake of their career) that the “public reason” they left was to “pursue other opportunities” or their job was eliminated.
While I have no inside information, I think Turner Ward was asked to leave the Dodgers and maybe Friedman facilitated him getting the new job in Cincy.