BOSTON -- Imagine, for a moment, you are Dave Dombrowski.
You have well-coiffed silver hair, a wardrobe full of designer suits and enough sway with Boston Red Sox principal owner John Henry that you enjoy nearly complete autonomy over the major-league roster and a farm system that is regarded by many rival scouts as the most fertile in the game. You also have franchise icon David Ortiz for only a few more months before he takes his MVP numbers and 500-plus career home runs and retires, and the highest-scoring offense in the league.
And on Thursday night, you watched from the executive suite on the EMC Club level at Fenway Park as Eduardo Rodriguez, one of the few starting pitchers that you thought you could count on in a rotation that has a 4.