Are Dave Dombrowski’s Red Sox a sequel to his Detroit Tigers team?
Tigers reliever Alex Wilson was drafted when Theo Epstein still ran the Red Sox. He came to the big leagues for the first time in 2013, under Ben Cherington, and in 2015 he moved on to the Tigers — the final year they were Dombrowski’s Tigers.
Wilson is still in Detroit now, where Al Avila, Dombrowski’s former right-hand man, runs the show.
Let’s compare and contrast.
“With Boston, you always had a giant farm system. There were always guys,” said Wilson, a Sox second-round draft pick in 2009.