New President of Baseball Operations is Dave Dombrowski
New General Manager is Mike Hazen
What happens with the Field Manager position? From all we've read, Farrell's treatment should be over well before spring training. Lovullo has seemingly done a better job with this team than Farrell did this season, but there are lots of possible reasons for that beyond "he's a better manager than Farrell". Does Dombrowski (or Hazen) have their own 3rd party they might want to install in the role?
Can a manager lose his job when he's out sick? Would the Sox risk the bad publicity by letting Farrell go while he's recovering from cancer? Should the Sox promote Farrell instead to give Lovullo the job without the bad pub of firing Farrell? Do the Sox just put Farrell back in the role and risk losing Lovullo to another team that requests the chance to interview him? He was already being discussed as managerial fodder prior to taking over from Farrell and there will be demand based on his results with the Sox so far.
New General Manager is Mike Hazen
What happens with the Field Manager position? From all we've read, Farrell's treatment should be over well before spring training. Lovullo has seemingly done a better job with this team than Farrell did this season, but there are lots of possible reasons for that beyond "he's a better manager than Farrell". Does Dombrowski (or Hazen) have their own 3rd party they might want to install in the role?
Can a manager lose his job when he's out sick? Would the Sox risk the bad publicity by letting Farrell go while he's recovering from cancer? Should the Sox promote Farrell instead to give Lovullo the job without the bad pub of firing Farrell? Do the Sox just put Farrell back in the role and risk losing Lovullo to another team that requests the chance to interview him? He was already being discussed as managerial fodder prior to taking over from Farrell and there will be demand based on his results with the Sox so far.