Toucher: Dombrowski's Old School Strategy Doesn't Work Anymore In Baseball
BOSTON (CBS) -- Red Sox fans are excited for change in the front office. But Fred Toucher cautioned on Wednesday morning that Dave Dombrowski may not exactly be the right man for the job.
Fred went back-and-forth with Marshall Hook on Wednesday, saying that Dombrowski's biggest fault is his inability to develop a farm system and, as a result, having no home-grown talent on his rosters.
"I don't want [Ben] Cherington, and I don't want Dombrowski," Fred said. "I want a guy that can maneuver and deal with this depth that they have in the minor league system. I'm very familiar with Dombrowski, and Dombrowski is in the Walt Jocketty Hall of Fame of just old-school throw money at it. You'll see."
Hook argued that Dombrowski brought the Tigers from being a last-place finisher to real contenders.
"He did make them a perennial playoff contender," Hook argued.
Fred remained unimpressed.
"He had an open checkbook," Fred said. "You could've done the same."
"There's a reason he was fired," Fred added. "The situation in baseball [from] when Dombrowski came into Detroit has completely changed. That's not the way you win now. You know that. The way you win now is you have to develop your own prospects, you have to have a farm system, and then you build up your players, and then you move them for free agents. That's the way you do it. You need home-grown talent. The Tigers are screwed. Tell me who they have that's home-grown talent. Tell me who they have to maneuver in their minor league system. They have nobody."