NEW YORK — For as long as he has worked for the Red Sox, going back to his summer as a 25-year-old area scout, Ben Cherington has answered to someone.
That won’t change just because team president Larry Lucchino is stepping down.
So, amid speculation that owner John Henry will hire a veteran executive (recently ousted Detroit Tigers president/general manager Dave Dombrowski’s name has been floated in the rumor mill) to oversee Cherington’s embattled baseball operations department, the Sox GM isn’t sweating it.
“Everybody has got a boss,” Cherington said yesterday in his first public comments since news of Lucchino’s exit at season’s end leaked last weekend.