BOSTON — When the Red Sox hired Dave Dombrowski as president of baseball operations on Aug. 18, 2015, they hired him to build a championship club as quickly as possible, prospects and money be damned. He built three consecutive first-place teams, a run of which the franchise had never seen, including the World Series champions of just 11 months ago. He traded prospects for stars and carried the most expensive payroll in baseball two years running.
Dombrowski delivered.
Now he’s gone–fired in the middle of the night Sunday after another loss pushed the Red Sox closer to inevitable elimination.