Red Sox fire president Dave Dombrowski less than a year after winning the World Series

No job is safe in the MLB.

Not even a year after orchestrating a World Series champion team in 2018, the Boston Red Sox announced Sunday that they have fired president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski.

Dombrowski, 63, was officially hired by the team in October 2016. He led the franchise to three straight AL East titles prior to 2019, and a World Series title last postseason.

Despite coming into the season with aspirations of a repeat, the combination of injuries to their pitching staff, underperforming players at the plate, and their inability to replace some of their key bullpen pieces from the previous year has led to an underwhelming record in 2019.

With less than a month remaining on the season, the Red Sox (76-67) are 17.5 games behind the first place New York Yankees in the AL East, and are eight games back from the second and final AL Wild Card spot.

“I just found out, so, surprised and shocked obviously,” said Red Sox manager Alex Cora.

“Right now, not too much to say. We’ll talk a little bit more tomorrow. But, he gave me a chance to come here and be a big league manager. It’s one of those that they just told me so, I’m not ready to talk about it.”

During his tenure, the team posted a combined 370-259 regular season record over a span of three-plus seasons.