Boston Red Sox farm system rebuild proven to be more hogwash

Just when you may have thought things couldn’t get much worse for the Boston Red Sox, they did. The team summarily dumped World Series winner Dave Dombrowski to the curb in 2019 after a down season less than one year from winning the World Series. Brilliant.

One of the phony reasons for his dismissal was Dombrowski’s allegedly de-foliating the team’s farm system. That theory has been totally exposed as hogwash and debunked once and for all. He actually sent away little.

Regardless, the new “sustainable”, aka cheap, Boston Red Sox, was supposedly building up the team’s down-in-the-dumps farm system as part of this renaissance. Then along came Keith Law of The Athletic to pour ice-cold water on that theory after three years.

Law put the kibosh on the supposedly rebuilt farm system with his ranking. Let’s take a look at this and what it all means for the now and likely future cellar-dwelling club, the Boston Red Sox.

Boston Red Sox sham farm rebuild is another joke on Red Sox Nation

The Boston Red Sox Chief Baseball Officer, Chaim Bloom was quick to refute the assessment.

Here’s what masslive.com reported,

"Chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom told MassLive.com’s Fenway Rundown podcast earlier this week he believes “pretty strongly” the Red Sox are in a better now than in 2019 when ownership hired him.‘What I think is not just my opinion but opinions around the game would say a dramatically improved longterm talent base,” Bloom said."

Hopefully, the farm system is in better shape than when they canned Dombrowski, if not, what the heck have the past three years been all about? As Shakespeare said, could it be “Much ado about nothing”?

John Tomase of nbcsports.com in a scathing indictment of the Sox farm system had this to say,

"The No. 23 farm system in baseball. That’s only two spots higher than the 25th-ranked organization Bloom inherited, which calls into question the team’s entire plan moving forward. There’s no way we’re pinning our hopes on a bottom-10 farm system. There just can’t be."

Boston Red Sox farm system flop muddles the whole situation

So the rebuild of the farm system at least according to Mr. Law hasn’t quite gone according to plan. So what then about the phony firing of Dombrowski who only won three straight AL East titles and one World Series before being summarily kicked to the curb after one AL East third-place finish with a respectable 84-78 record?

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Dombrowski met the perceived objective and then some, at least of Boston Red Sox Nation if not their half-baked ownership. Again, it’s simple. It’s all about the Benjamins.

The absentee ownership of the Boston Red Sox wanted to cut payroll, pocket more millions, and the state of the club could take a hike. And that’s exactly what they did. Dave Dombrowski was the fall guy.

And even after the seemingly amazing rush to the ALCS in 2021, the baseball management couldn’t stand prosperity and dismantled a good part of that successful team. The result was as expected, a fall back to the basement to the AL East.

Meanwhile, Dave Dombrowski, who runs the Philadelphia Phillies, signed a key component of the Boston Red Sox 2021 run to the ALCS, Kyle Schwarber. He then ran the Phillies to the World Series before losing to the ever-precocious Houston Astros.

The moral of the story again is this, if you want sustainability, go into recycling. If you want to win a World Series, get real and spend your cash on the best players. Under Dombrowski, it worked just fine.

Conversely, the owners could sell the team and make everybody happy. But we’re not likely to see that too soon, unfortunately. But we can hope, can’t we?