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Red Sox hire Dombrowski to head baseball ops

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Red Sox make changes, hire Dombrowski

ESPNBoston.com's Gordon Edes breaks down the Red Sox's hiring of Dave Dombrowski as president of baseball operations. Ben Cherington will step down as general manager.

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BOSTON -- After what David Dombrowski described as a "whirlwind" courtship, the Boston Red Sox announced Tuesday night they have hired him as the team's president of baseball operations, two weeks after he was fired as president of the Detroit Tigers.