Four days after the MLB trade deadline, the Detroit Tigers have fired general manager Dave Dombrowski.
It doesn’t take much to lose your job in sports, and that’s true of everyone at every level of every organization. From the players to the coaches and even the front office executives, your job is always on the line.
Detroit Tigers general manager Dave Dombrowski found this out on Tuesday, when just four days after the trade deadline he was removed from his position with the team. According to multiple reports, the Tigers have parted ways with Dombrowski — which is a nice way of saying he was fired.
tigers bombshell: dave dombrowski resigns as tigers president/gm. al avila takes over.
— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) August 4, 2015
#Tigers have unique structure: No one has title of club president. Avila (baseball) and Duane McLean (business) report directly to owner.
— Jon Morosi (@jonmorosi) August 4, 2015
While the Tigers organizational chart may be free flowing, the question is why was he fired? The Tigers were rumored to be sellers at the deadline but they had the talent to contend for the postseason if they wanted to. Instead of holding onto key healthy pieces while injured key pieces recovered, Dombrowski traded away David Price to the Blue Jays and Yoenis Cespedes to the Mets — getting back decent prospect return in exchange.
Still, this wasn’t good enough for the rest of the front office and now Dombrowski is looking for work.
Ironically, he might be headed to the Toronto Blue Jays. Just about everyone at the deadline surprisingly went to the Blue Jays, from unexpected pieces like Troy Tulowitzki to David Price and smaller pieces like Ben Revere. Now it appears Dombrowski could be headed there as well to fill in a front office position for the future.
Either way, the Tigers went from teetering on the brink of contending to being a complete mess of a team without an ace pitcher, without a star outfielder and without a general manager.
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