Should the Angels add Dave Dombrowski to the organization?

[mmc]

Just fired by the Red Sox, should the Angels hire him in some capacity?

[Claude]

3 minutes ago, mymerlincat said:

Just fired by the Red Sox, should the Angels hire him in some capacity?

He should be Eppler’s boss.

[angelsnationtalk]

Was just thinking the same thing 

[UndertheHalo]

1 hour ago, Calzone 2 said:

He should be Eppler’s boss.

God shut the fu*ck up. 

 

As to the original question.  Yes.  The Angels should add as many good baseball people as possible.  They should absolutely add him if it’s a possibility.  I do wonder whether the Angels management structure is dated.  

[Claude]

35 minutes ago, UndertheHalo said:

God shut the fu*ck up. 

 

As to the original question.  Yes.  The Angels should add as many good baseball people as possible.  They should absolutely add him if it’s a possibility.  I do wonder whether the Angels management structure is dated.  

With all due respect he has much more experience than Eppler. I’ve said many times that Arte should’ve hired a president of baseball operations and let that guy hire a GM and Manager. Arte and Carpino aren’t qualified to do that. But here we are...

[UndertheHalo]

3 minutes ago, Calzone 2 said:

With all due respect he has much more experience than Eppler. I’ve said many times that Arte should’ve hired a president of baseball operations and let that guy hire a GM and Manager. Arte and Carpino aren’t qualified to do that. But here we are...

And it’s Epplers front office genius. You think they should blow it up now for Dombrowski ? Eppler deserves this off season.  If they can bring in Dombrowski to play some role then great.  But shit canning Eppler now is a step back for the organization.  It signals total failure and a retreat.  Everyone is frustrated.  But the Angels aren’t that far off.  Eppler should get this winter at least.  Everyone knows the clock is ticking and indefinite failure isn’t going to work.  Now is not the time to pull the plug on what Eppler is doing. 

[Stradling]

The easy answer is no, the Angels should not hire Dombroski.  He seems to be the guy who guts the farm to give a team a short window to succeed. He’s a more successful version of Dipoto.   Unless I’m mistaken about him then it’s a hard pass from me. 

[UndertheHalo]

2 minutes ago, Baghdad Strad said:

The easy answer is no, the Angels should not hire Dombroski.  He seems to be the guy who guts the farm to give a team a short window to succeed. He’s a more successful version of Dipoto.   Unless I’m mistaken about him then it’s a hard pass from me. 

To take over as GM I agree.  But I think the Angels could definitley benefit from his close exposure to the Red Sox system.  Specifically the data stuff and the people he is connected with.  Dombrowski I think probably also brings good experience with major league talent assessment.  Or at least the systems that are good at it. 

[Pancake Bear]

No. He's lucked into success. Stradling has it correct: He's a slightly less destructive version of Dipoto. He's exactly the last thing we need right now.

[UndertheHalo]

Lucky ? Jeez.  That’s a bad take dude.  This guy has spent a long time in baseball.  Doing all kinds of front office work.  He’s had a ton of success.  

[UndertheHalo]

 

[arch stanton]

Dombrowski's function seems to be to put the team over the yop at least in the short term. It worked in Boston last year, not so much in Detroit before that

[Inside Pitch]

23 minutes ago, Baghdad Strad said:

The easy answer is no, the Angels should not hire Dombroski.  He seems to be the guy who guts the farm to give a team a short window to succeed. He’s a more successful version of Dipoto.   Unless I’m mistaken about him then it’s a hard pass from me. 

This is exactly what he has become...   

Dude was awesome back when he first came to prominence as team builder as part of the Expos braintrust that included Stoneman.  In Miami he basically created their system....   The later half of his tenure In Detroit he started chasing the wins and became Pat Gillick redux.

All that being said, Dombrowski was always one of my favorites, I find it hard to believe he couldn't change course and go back into builder mode.

[Inside Pitch]

20 minutes ago, Sean-Regan said:

No. He's lucked into success. Stradling has it correct: He's a slightly less destructive version of Dipoto. He's exactly the last thing we need right now.

No dude..   He was at one time hand picked by Bill Stoneman to be the GM of the Expos.   He was a big part of what was easily the best scouting department in MLB for a good decade.

He's definitely been willing to move guys to succeed in recent years but he's also put together winners.   Ultimately I think his FA mistakes are what got him fired.   That trio of Price, Sale, and Eovaldi are hard to swallow.

[DMVol]

4 hours ago, Inside Pitch said:

The later half of his tenure In Detroit he started chasing the wins and became Pat Gillick redux.....

Pat Gillick was probably the best GM of his generation....my opinion only.....

[Blarg]

7 hours ago, Calzone 2 said:

He should be Eppler’s boss.

 

6 hours ago, Calzone 2 said:

With all due respect he has much more experience than Eppler. I’ve said many times that Arte should’ve hired a president of baseball operations and let that guy hire a GM and Manager. Arte and Carpino aren’t qualified to do that. But here we are...

Drombosky has run the Red Sox payroll to the highest in baseball for the last two season and never dipped below 3rd in his tenure.

And you're the jackass that bitches about Pujols salary and how great the A's are running at a bare minimum payroll. 

6 hours ago, UndertheHalo said:

God shut the fu*ck up. 

Well put.

[AngelsFaninGA]

No. We already have Eppler and he's doing fine. We're not the Red Sox

[Inside Pitch]

1 hour ago, Blarg said:

And you're the jackass that bitches about Pujols salary and how great the A's are running at a bare minimum payroll.

Narratives shift depending on the troll.  

[Dtwncbad]

I think it is maybe a little silly to assume someone like Dombrowski would behave the same way in every job at every team.  Clearly an owner of a team that just wants to get to a World Series would hire him.

The question with the Angels is could Dombrowski execute the Angel plan to build a consistent winner?

The guy is no idiot.  It’s a good bet he could be very successful here.  But unless Arte is unhappy with Eppler, there isn’t much point in considering it.

[nate]

He made some truly awful deals for the Red Sox.  Hard pass.

[Dtwncbad]

1 minute ago, nate said:

He made some truly awful deals for the Red Sox.  Hard pass.

Yeah he has been really unsuccessful over the decades.

[totdprods]

I actually like thinking about how the two would compliment each other, but it would be a really bad idea to split their authority up. Eppler hasn’t really earned any reason to be over Dombrowski, but he also hasn’t shown any reason why he should have someone senior over him. 

[AngelStew43]

If it were up to me, I'd be sure that Billy Eppler is locked up.  Eppler is just the type of guy that the Red Sox would try to poach from us.

[Claude]

36 minutes ago, AngelStew43 said:

If it were up to me, I'd be sure that Billy Eppler is locked up.  Eppler is just the type of guy that the Red Sox would try to poach from us.

Don’t let the door hit you in the ass.

...Arte

[eligrba]

37 minutes ago, AngelStew43 said:

If it were up to me, I'd be sure that Billy Eppler is locked up.  Eppler is just the type of guy that the Red Sox would try to poach from us.

My bet is with Theo returning to the Red Sox.