Dave Dombrowski’s first full season with the Boston Red Sox was also David Ortiz’s last. Hired in the middle of the 2015 campaign as president of baseball operations, Dombrowski couldn’t know the next spring that Ortiz was set for one of the greatest goodbye tours in baseball history, an MVP-caliber performance in his age-40 season. So you can understand why the executive was a little concerned in spring training 2016 to see Big Papi barely play at all and struggle mightily at the plate when he did.
“You’re wondering: This guy, is he done?” Dombrowski, who’s now with the Philadelphia Phillies, recalled recently.
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