COMMENTARY
The Great New England Quiet of July 31, 2019, is not a story about Dave Dombrowski, but since there’s a reasonable chance you’re still mad at him this morning, let’s start there.
“We had an opportunity to make a lot of trades, if we wanted to,” the Red Sox roster architect told reporters hours before Boston lost a second straight to Tampa Bay, who’s not much better than the 2019 Red Sox, but is 7-1 at Fenway Park this year. “We just felt that demands for what we were going to receive, we didn’t want to pay.