Ben Cherington

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ben Cherington
Date Of Birth	Jul 14, 1974(1974-07-14)
Age	50
Birthplace	Meriden
Country	United States
Birth City	Connecticut
Horoscope	Cancer

Ben Cherington Biography

Ben Cherington is one of the most popular and richest Baseball Manager who was born on July 14, 1974 in Meriden, Connecticut, United States. Benjamin P. Cherington (born July 14 1974) is an American baseball executive who has been the general manager for the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball (MLB) since November of 2019. Prior to that, he was the vice- president of baseball operations at the Toronto Blue Jays, and was executive vice president as well as general manager for the Boston Red Sox from 2011 until 2015. In 2015, he succeeds Theo Epstein in that position and was employed in the Baseball Operations Office since prior to Epstein’s arrival.

In April of 2012 Cherington got married to the marketing director Tyler Tumminia in a ceremony at Brooklyn Borough Hall. Tumminia is currently employed by the New York Yankees The couple have two daughters: Adwen Hudson (born 2012) and Harper Charles. Cherington was previously got married with ESPN journalist Wendi Nix.

Cherington was named Major League Baseball Executive of the Year for 2013 by The Sporting News for his efforts. He was only the third Red Sox executive to win the award since its origination in 1936, following longtime owner Tom Yawkey (1946) and late general manager Dick O’Connell (1967; 1975).

On August 1, with the Red Sox again mired in last place at 47–58, Lucchino announced his intention to retire as president/CEO at the end of the season. Seventeen days later, the Red Sox named veteran MLB executive Dave Dombrowski to the new position of president, baseball operations, to oversee Cherington and the on-field side of the Boston organization. Cherington then turned in his resignation, declining the club’s request that he remain as the team’s general manager. By that time, only one of the 2013 free agents, injured closer Uehara, remained on the Red Sox’ roster. However, Cherington left behind a group of young players (Xander Bogaerts, Mookie Betts, Brock Holt, Eduardo Rodríguez, Blake Swihart, Travis Shaw, Henry Owens, Christian Vázquez, and others) as a potential core of their 2016 team. Much of this core that Cherington acquired contributed heavily to the Red Sox’s 2018 championship. Five weeks later, Mike Hazen, one of Cherington’s assistants, was named his successor.

Since December 12, 2005 until January 19 in 2006, he was employed in the role of Red Sox’ co-general manager along with Jed Hoyer during Epstein’s absence from the team. club president and CEO Larry Lucchino and veteran former Major League GM Bill Lajoie being key players during the time. After the return of Epstein, Cherington became vice president for player personnel until January 2009, and then the senior vice president and assistant GM until 2009, and finally his promotion to general manager following his promotion to general manager following the season of 2011.

Ben Cherington Net Worth

Ben Cherington is one of the richest Baseball Manager from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ben Cherington 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Cherington was employed by Boston as a scout for the area as well as a baseball operations assistant the coordinator for international scouting and director assistant (and director) of player development from 1999 to 2005.

He was born in Meriden, New Hampshire, He is the son of the former Dartmouth College professor Richard Eberhart poet, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Cherington has graduated from Lebanon High School, where the school had him as a pitcher on the team for the varsity baseball. He attended Amherst College, where he was part of the Gamma chapter of the Psi Upsilon fraternity, and holds a Master’s Degree in Sports Management through the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was initially hired by the Red Sox in 1999 by Dan Duquette, an Amherst College Alumnus, who was the club’s general manager following the fact that Cherington was employed the season before in the role of an advance scout with Cleveland Indians. Cleveland Indians.

Valentine’s 2012 roster included many veterans of the 2011 Red Sox, and he clashed with his players, his holdover coaches, and the media. The team suffered from injuries to key players, struggled out of the gate, improved to a high-water mark of 41–36 (.532) on June 29, but then began to fall back in the standings. When it became clear that the Red Sox would not contend as constituted, Cherington and the team’s ownership initiated a trade with the Los Angeles Dodgers on August 25, sending pitcher Josh Beckett, outfielder Carl Crawford and first baseman Adrián González — all on expensive, multiyear contracts — to the Dodgers and clearing $262.5 million in salary obligations. Stripped of veteran talent, the 2012 Red Sox went only 9–26 over the final 35 games of the season and finished with their worst record since 1965. Valentine was fired one day after the season ended October 3.

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Who is Ben Cherington Dating?

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During that offseason, Boston failed to re-sign free agents Ellsbury and Jarrod Saltalamacchia. The 2014 Red Sox, struggling to score runs, fell back to last place in the AL East, losing 26 games from their previous year’s standard with a 71–91 record, 25 games behind the division champion Baltimore Orioles. On July 31, with Boston out of the race, Cherington traded starting pitchers Lackey and Jon Lester to contending teams (Peavy had been traded July 26), then retooled the roster during the 2014–15 offseason, adding high-ticket free agents Pablo Sandoval and Hanley Ramírez and trading for starting pitchers Wade Miley and Rick Porcello.

Facts & Trivia

Ben Ranked on the list of most popular Baseball Manager. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Ben Cherington celebrates birthday on July 14 of every year.

On September 14, 2016, Cherington was hired by the Toronto Blue Jays to be their vice-president of baseball operations.