Report: Purple Sox in ‘superior discussions’ with Craig Breslow for prime exec job

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Craig Breslow gained a World Sequence with the Purple Sox in 2013.

Red Sox reliever Craig Breslow reacts after he got the Rays Evan Longoria to ground into a double play to end the top of the 7th inining. The Boston Red Sox hosted the Tampa Bay Rays in Game Two of their ALDS baseball playoffs at Fenway Park.
Craig Breslow has served as an govt with the Cubs since 2019. Jim Davis / The Boston Globe

The Purple Sox’ seek for Chaim Bloom’s substitute on the prime of the crew’s baseball operations division is perhaps focusing on a former Boston reliever and 2013 World Sequence champion.

Based on Patrick Mooney of The Athletic, former Sox southpaw and present Cubs assistant GM/director of pitching Craig Breslow has been “in superior discussions” with Boston for the highest gig inside its baseball ops division.

Breslow, who pitched for the Purple Sox for 5 of his 12 seasons in MLB, was listed by Alex Speier of The Boston Globe as a possible candidate to exchange Bloom, with Speier including that Breslow has already formally interviewed for the place. 

Alongside together with his hyperlinks to Boston on the mound, Breslow has loads of native ties to the Purple Sox. The New Haven, Connecticut, native graduated from Yale and now resides in Newton, even after taking his present job with Cubs.

Mooney famous that former Purple Sox GM Theo Epstein personally recruited Breslow to hitch the Cubs entrance workplace in 2019, with the lefty coveted by different organizations just like the Purple Sox and Yankees for a front-office position after deciding to hold up his spikes. 

In his position with Chicago, Breslow helped run a rebuild of the Cubs’ pitching growth infrastructure whereas additionally aiding within the analysis of free brokers and monitoring different day-to-day operations. 

Breslow’s reported superior discussions with the Purple Sox stands as a welcome departure for what has in any other case been a plodding and irritating seek for Boston’s subsequent baseball govt. 

A number of noteworthy candidates linked to the Purple Sox — together with former Astros GM James Click on, Phillies GM Sam Fuld, and Dodgers GM Brandon Gomes — have opted to not interview for Boston’s emptiness in its entrance workplace.