Fansided · Jan 19
Red Sox front office brain drain weeks before Alex Bregman whiff is suspicious
Red Sox leaders think the 'window of contention' is here, and they're ready to make improvements for | Boston Globe/GettyImagesEarly this offseason, the Boston Red Sox announced that one of their priorities outside of roster construction would be naming a general manager to serve under Craig Breslow. That hasn't happened yet, likely because their top candidate departed the organization for another.
Boston's former assistant GM, Paul Toboni, had been part of the Red Sox organization for 15 years, working his way up from a baseball operations intern to the top candidate for the GM job (subscription required). He was hired out from under Breslow's feet before he could name him GM.
