The Red Sox seek for a brand new head of baseball operations appears to evolve with every passing day, and although the membership has been tight lipped concerning the course of an image is starting to emerge of who’s and isn’t in rivalry.
According to Jon Heyman of the New York Post, Minnesota Twins common supervisor Thad Levine and former Houston Astros GM James Click are each candidates for the Red Sox place. Heyman reported that Levine is interviewing for the job, making him the second identified candidate to interview after Red Sox assistant GM Eddie Romero, and Click is being thought of as nicely.
Levine is the No. 2 man to president of baseball operations Derek Falvey in Minnesota and was beforehand a prime candidate for the highest Philadelphia Phillies job that in the end went to Dave Dombrowski. He took his present function after the 2016 season and since then has helped lead the Twins to 4 playoff appearances. This 12 months the Twins went 87-75 to win the AL Central, snapped an 18-game playoff shedding streak and swept the Toronto Blue Jays within the AL Wild Card spherical to win the franchise’s first playoff sequence since 2002.
Click left the Astros this previous offseason after main the franchise to its second World Series championship largely as a result of disagreements with proprietor Jim Crane. During his three years in cost the Astros made the ALCS in three straight years, gained two pennants and beat Philadelphia in six video games to win final 12 months’s title. Click spent this previous season working as a vice chairman for the Blue Jays.
Two broadly speculated executives who gained’t be coming to Boston are Phillies GM Sam Fuld and Los Angeles Dodgers GM Brandon Gomes. According to Chad Jennings of The Athletic, the 2 are among the many potential candidates who’ve declined to interview for the job.
Others in an identical boat embody Falvey, former Texas Rangers president Jon Daniels, who reportedly doesn’t wish to uproot his household from their residence in Texas, and former Miami Marlins president Michael Hill, who in line with USA Today’s Bob Nightingale is reportedly joyful in his present function as MLB’s vice chairman of baseball operations. It’s not but identified whether or not former Marlins GM Kim Ng, who unexpectedly parted methods with Miami on Monday, is a candidate for the Red Sox job.
Source: www.bostonherald.com