MLB Bullets Changes Its Sox

We can probably add a "Caption The Photo" event to go with this story.

• When the Tigers fired Dave Dombrowski two weeks ago, I said that he wouldn't be unemployed long. But I did think it would be a little longer than this. The Red Sox hired Dombrowski as their new president of baseball operations. Current GM Ben Cherington was offered a chance to stay on, but he declined.
• Gordon Edes has some questions about what this means for those currently working in the Red Sox organization.
• Tim Healy has five thoughts about what the move means for the Red Sox. He wonders how much Dombrowski will change the organizational philosophy.
• Jon Heyman thinks the hiring of Dombrowski is a sign of a major philosophical change in Boston.
• Ken Rosenthal also sees this as a change in philosophy from the Epstein/Cherington era and Dombrowski. However, he does say that there isn't as much difference between "old school" executives like Dombrowski and "new school" ones like Cherington as there used to be. He also feels bad for Cherington.
• Matt Snyder thinks Cherington had an odd tenure as GM.
• Cherington wasn't the only executive out of a job. The Dodgers fired most of their international scouting department.
• And while former Dodgers third base coach Lorenzo Bundy still has a job, the Dodgers hired former Brewers manager Ron Roenicke to handle the third base duties.
• Despite the Dodgers hiring someone with managerial experience in an important job, manager Don Mattingly says he's not worried at all that Roenicke might be poised to replace him.
• The Dodgers are temporarily going to a four-man rotation, so now they'll only have to pray for two days of rain.
• Normally when I link to Bill Plaschke, it's to mock him. But this piece he did on John Shoemaker is very good. Shoemaker is currently the manager of the Ogden Dodgers and is one of those minor-league lifer managers who are so important to the development of major league ballplayers.
• Staying with the Dodgers, Vin Scully is undecided whether he'll return next season.
• You may be able to watch in-market games on mlb.tv next season! A couple of catches. First, you'll still have to subscribe to a content provider that carries the games. Second, it will only apply to the Fox RSNs, so yeah, no in-market Cubs games.
• Michael Baumann has a response for those who hear about Brewers minor leaguer David Denson coming out and say "Why is this news?" Apparently it isn't news over at Brew Crew Ball.
• This is kind of a neat, multimedia piece by ESPN.com on the 54-game road trip of the Biloxi Shuckers.
• Commissioner Rob Manfred took the time to write a guest column for ESPN.com about efforts to get kids interested in the game--and it's behind a paywall. That's irony, Alanis.
• Yankees pitcher Bryan Mitchell had his nose broken by a comebacker on Monday.
• On that front, MLB is likely to approve new protective headgear for pitchers next season.
• Will Leitch breaks down the NL East race between the Nationals and Mets.
• Ken Rosenthal thinks the Nationals still have the time and talent to turn their season around.
• Grant Brisbee, on the other hand, thinks the Nationals might be doomed for next year too.
• Rob Neyer considers a suggestion to have Davey Johnson take over managing the Nats for the rest of the season.
• Matthew Trueblood is thinking that even 162 games constitutes a "small sample size."
• Chase Utley will probably finish the season with the Phillies. As a 10 and 5 player, Utley hasn't really been very open to a deal.
• Will Venable won't finish the season with the Padres because he's been traded to the Rangers.
• After Carlos Correa tackled Jose Altuve in a postgame celebration, Astros manager A.J. Hinch told him to knock it off.
• That might be the first bad thing anyone has said about Correa. Jorge L. Ortiz thinks that Correa could be the next "face of baseball."
• Rob Neyer has an update on players taken in the Rule 5 draft last winter.
• CC Sabathia was involved in fight, or at least a shouting match, outside the Copacabana a Toronto nightclub.
• The Marlins recalled outfielder Marcell Ozuna from Triple-A New Orleans. Ozuna said playing for the Zephyrs was "like a jail."
• No, Marcell, this is what playing in a jail is like. A look at the San Quentin Giants.
• Rob Neyer shows you a neat baseball museum/club hybrid in Cincinnati.
• Craig Calcaterra went on the trip with Neyer and took pictures of the men's room.
• I don't think this home run by Josh Donaldson has landed yet.
• Joe Posnanski assess the Hall of Fame chances of current players.
• And finally, Roberto Clemente asked for raise to $23,000 for the 1960 season. This is the response he got. (To be fair, Clemente really was coming off a poor 1959 season.)