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- Updated: July 25, 2016
BOSTON — Though Dave Dombrowski has been the president of baseball operations with the Red Sox for almost a year, Monday marked the first time he was in the same ballpark as the Tigers since his 14-year association with that club ended Aug. 5, 2015.
Sure, there were some emotions for the veteran executive leading up to the start of a three-game series between the Red Sox and Tigers, and how could there not be?
“It’s unusual. It’s different,” said Dombrowski. “It’s one of those situations where I wasn’t sure how I would feel about it. But I guess after all those years and friendships, there’s a little bit of mixed emotions. But it was just an interesting time because when I walked out on the field today, the Tigers were taking early hitting, so I had a chance to run into a lot of the guys staff-wise and players and it was very comfortable to say hello to them.”
Under Dombrowski’s watch, the Tigers made it to the World Series twice, losing to the Cardinals in 2006 and the Giants in ’12.
“We were so close so many times. We won the division four years in a row, went to the World Series twice,” Dombrowski said. “I think we had a lot of good years in the …
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