The Red Sox seem to have discovered their man in Craig Breslow.
A supply echoed Alex Speier’s and Michael Silverman’s report within the Boston Globe on Tuesday night, that the membership provided Breslow the job as head of baseball operations and he accepted.
Breslow had two stints with the Red Sox throughout his 11-year Major League profession. He was instrumental to the 2013 championship, anchoring the bullpen with a career-best 1.18 ERA over 61 regular-season appearances. He made 10 reduction appearances throughout that 12 months’s postseason, together with 9 scoreless outings (eight consecutively).
In his post-playing profession, the 43-year-old discovered a special technique to affect a franchise’s pitching; because the Cubs’ assistant basic supervisor and vice chairman of pitching, he’s remodeled their farm system right into a well-oiled arms improvement machine.
For the Red Sox, who search new management however need a lot of their inside construction to remain the identical, Breslow appears to take advantage of sense. He and Alex Cora have been teammates in Boston in 2006-07, and most of the different executives have been with the group since earlier than he signed his minor-league contract with the crew on February 1, 2006.
His New England roots run deep, too. A New Haven, Conn. native, Breslow was a star pitcher at Yale (and the Bulldogs’ crew captain) earlier than embarking upon his skilled profession. Though employed by the Chicago Cubs since 2019, he lives in Newton, Mass. and infrequently works remotely.
Source: www.bostonherald.com