Interesting to compare Rizzo's tenure to Boston. Theo walked after 2011. Cherington did a salary dump in 2012, then was given enough to buy surrounding FAs to win in 2013, and then was gone I think after 2015. Dombo was given bucks for FAs and the go ahead to strip the farm for the 2018 series, but was gone I think after 2019 or 2020. Then there was Bloom for 3 years and one LCS appearance, with direction to get the budget under control, and now there's Breslow with no authority to spend. 4 GMs, 2 WS, and an LCS appearance (plus a couple of division titles) over Rizzo's tenure.
Really not a fair comparison. The Red Sox are the third most valuable franchise in baseball. They got about 800,000 more in attendance than the Nationals last year. They would get about $36 million more than the Nationals in local TV rights each year, that is if the Nationals actually received the money they were owed.
