SportsCenter 5 confirms the Boston Red Sox have offered their head of baseball operations job to Craig Breslow, a former player who was in the organization during two World Series championship seasons.MLB.com’s Ian Browne and ESPN’s Buster Olney are both reporting that Breslow has accepted the Red Sox’s offer to be the team’s new leader of baseball operations on Tuesday.Breslow, 43, appeared in 12 major-league seasons as a left-handed pitcher and has spent the past five seasons working in the Chicago Cubs front office.The Connecticut native and Yale University graduate has been the Cubs assistant general manager and vice president of pitching since November 2020. He is also a former teammate of current Red Sox manager Alex Cora.The Red Sox’s offer to Breslow comes more than a month after the club fired Chaim Bloom as chief baseball officer on Sept. 14. In four seasons under Bloom, Boston finished below .500 and in last place of the American League East three times — save for the 2021 season, where the Sox finished second in the division with a 92-70 record, reached the A.L. Championship Series and were two wins shy of reaching the World Series.Breslow debuted for the San Diego Padres in July 2005 and joined the Red Sox on a minor league contract in February 2006. He appeared in 13 games with Boston in 2006 and was a Triple-A All-Star for the Pawtucket Red Sox in 2006 and 2007. He was added to Boston’s 2007 postseason roster as the Sox went on to win the World Series, giving him a championship ring without having pitched in a major league game that year.In March 2008, Breslow was claimed off waivers by the Cleveland Indians and pitched for the Minnesota Twins (2008-09), Oakland Athletics (2009-11) and Arizona Diamondbacks (2012) before he was traded back to the Red Sox on July 31, 2012.For the rest of the 2012 season, Breslow went 1-0 with a 2.70 earned run average in 23 relief appearances with the Red Sox, which earned him a two-year contract with Boston.Breslow went 5-2 with a career-best 1.81 ERA over 59 2/3 innings in 2013, limiting opponents to a .228 batting average in 61 appearances. He appeared in 10 of 16 games during the playoffs, posting a 2.45 ERA as the Red Sox won the 2013 World Series.After the 2014 season, Breslow re-signed with the Red Sox for one more year before joining the Miami Marlins in free agency in February 2016. After spending part of the 2016 season with the Marlins and the rest in the Texas Rangers’ minor-league system, he played parts of the 2017 season with Minnesota and Cleveland. He spent 2018 in the Toronto Blue Jays’ minor-league system in what ended up being his last season as a professional player.Theo Epstein, who was the Red Sox’s general manager during the 2004 and 2007 championship seasons, hired Breslow to be part of the Cubs front office in January 2019 as director of strategic initiatives for baseball operations.The Cubs would promote Breslow to director of pitching and special assistant to the president and general manager in October 2019 before being promoted to the assistant general manager and vice president of pitching role just over a year later.
SportsCenter 5 confirms the Boston Red Sox have offered their head of baseball operations job to Craig Breslow, a former player who was in the organization during two World Series championship seasons.
MLB.com’s Ian Browne and ESPN’s Buster Olney are both reporting that Breslow has accepted the Red Sox’s offer to be the team’s new leader of baseball operations on Tuesday.
Breslow, 43, appeared in 12 major-league seasons as a left-handed pitcher and has spent the past five seasons working in the Chicago Cubs front office.
The Connecticut native and Yale University graduate has been the Cubs assistant general manager and vice president of pitching since November 2020. He is also a former teammate of current Red Sox manager Alex Cora.
The Red Sox’s offer to Breslow comes more than a month after the club fired Chaim Bloom as chief baseball officer on Sept. 14. In four seasons under Bloom, Boston finished below .500 and in last place of the American League East three times — save for the 2021 season, where the Sox finished second in the division with a 92-70 record, reached the A.L. Championship Series and were two wins shy of reaching the World Series.
Breslow debuted for the San Diego Padres in July 2005 and joined the Red Sox on a minor league contract in February 2006. He appeared in 13 games with Boston in 2006 and was a Triple-A All-Star for the Pawtucket Red Sox in 2006 and 2007. He was added to Boston’s 2007 postseason roster as the Sox went on to win the World Series, giving him a championship ring without having pitched in a major league game that year.
In March 2008, Breslow was claimed off waivers by the Cleveland Indians and pitched for the Minnesota Twins (2008-09), Oakland Athletics (2009-11) and Arizona Diamondbacks (2012) before he was traded back to the Red Sox on July 31, 2012.
For the rest of the 2012 season, Breslow went 1-0 with a 2.70 earned run average in 23 relief appearances with the Red Sox, which earned him a two-year contract with Boston.
Breslow went 5-2 with a career-best 1.81 ERA over 59 2/3 innings in 2013, limiting opponents to a .228 batting average in 61 appearances. He appeared in 10 of 16 games during the playoffs, posting a 2.45 ERA as the Red Sox won the 2013 World Series.
After the 2014 season, Breslow re-signed with the Red Sox for one more year before joining the Miami Marlins in free agency in February 2016. After spending part of the 2016 season with the Marlins and the rest in the Texas Rangers’ minor-league system, he played parts of the 2017 season with Minnesota and Cleveland. He spent 2018 in the Toronto Blue Jays’ minor-league system in what ended up being his last season as a professional player.
Theo Epstein, who was the Red Sox’s general manager during the 2004 and 2007 championship seasons, hired Breslow to be part of the Cubs front office in January 2019 as director of strategic initiatives for baseball operations.
The Cubs would promote Breslow to director of pitching and special assistant to the president and general manager in October 2019 before being promoted to the assistant general manager and vice president of pitching role just over a year later.
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