Though the Boston Red Sox firing president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski Monday was a surprise from the outside, it reportedly came after tensions within the organization.
According to Evan Drellich of The Athletic, Dombrowski had asked for an extension multiple times since winning the World Series last October but was turned down. The 63-year-old also had to push ownership for an extension for pitcher Chris Sale, which he "did not handle smoothly."
"There were many days when functionality inside the Red Sox front office felt like a minor miracle to the people around him," Drellich wrote.