The biggest problem is that with the way the pace of seasons work, Cherington basically can't be fired until August or so. It's not possible to install a new leadership team in time for the draft and trade deadline.
This is where I think things can are headed from bad to worse. The draft seems relatively separate from things, and if Cherington is strongly in charge, he has garnered a lot of praise for the talent acquired anyways. But he cannot make trades where MLB talent is sent out and prospects are acquired to save his life, and surely the logical next step here is that guys like Keller and Reynolds are on the chopping block.
I guess either him or some replacement could cut a path where things are consolidated around Skenes/Chandler/Jones/Harrington and Cruz/???(Termarr?), (Trade acquisitions), but what we are looking at with sober eyes is a team that is effectively a 100-loss talent without too much of a cupboard of talent and absolutely no willingness to invest in free agency. It's grim no matter which way you look at it, which is why I think Shelton rightfully being fired is ultimately just a blip.
The only positive thing I can think to say about it is that it cuts out an excuse for when the team is still really bad and/or too buried for anything to matter.
