FORT MYERS, Fla. — It is safe to say that Dave Dombrowski has been around baseball for a while.
He has been the general manager of one team that changed names and another that changed cities. He worked with Tony LaRussa — in Chicago. He has operated a payroll as low as $12 million and handed out a contract extension worth nearly a quarter-billion dollars.
We are not here to make a bunch of “Dave Dombrowski so old” jokes, but rather to say that the man has seen some things in this game.
He has never seen a spring like this.