He didn’t win it all. And in the end, that’s what so many will remember. That’s what you will remember.
Dave Dombrowski was given the money to compete with the richest teams in baseball and couldn’t get it done.
Simple, right?
You either win the last game of the season or you don’t, and when you don’t, for 14 years running, well, that’s the legacy. Has to be the legacy.
Except that does a disservice to what actually happened during Dombrowski’s tenure with the Detroit Tigers. Because it’s complicated.
But it wasn't always.