http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/10/25/discussion-its-time-to-let-go-of-jon-lester/ Bringing BP-quality analysis to Boston Mon, 20 Aug 2018 04:19:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/10/25/discussion-its-time-to-let-go-of-jon-lester/#comment-9198 Thu, 27 Oct 2016 18:15:48 +0000 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=9603#comment-9198 i’m sour on it because it’s a constant pattern of ownership/lucchino interfering in baseball ops and rarely if ever being right (crawford, epstein, bobby v, fat panda, dombrowski and the mass exodus of front office guys as a result). if they just backed off and let theo have full autonomy, like they seem to have given to dombrowski, the red sox would be in much much better shape. until the front office is back to being great and ownership has a 5+ year track record of writing checks and staying out of they way i’m still going to hold onto it.

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