Craig Breslow’s attempt at streamlining the Red Sox’ baseball operations department has drawn some significant pushback.
ESPN’s Jeff Passan published a piece on Friday about the fallout from the Rafael Devers trade, and in it he described a scene that resembled the 1999 film “Office Space.”
The Red Sox fired around 50 people last year in an attempt to trim “fat” that had persisted through previous iterations of the Sox front office. The scouting department was hit hard. Passan described it as being “gutted.”
The moves did not sit well with a number of longtime employees, some of whom are still bitter.