{"id":166709,"date":"2025-09-24T18:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T18:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/166709\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T18:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T18:58:08","slug":"source-nationals-bringing-in-paul-toboni-to-lead-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/166709\/","title":{"rendered":"Source – Nationals bringing in Paul Toboni to lead operations"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Nationals<\/a> are finalizing a deal to name Paul Toboni their new head of baseball operations, sources told ESPN, tabbing the Boston Red Sox<\/a> assistant general manager to turn around a team barreling toward its fifth last-place finish in six seasons.<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old Toboni is widely regarded as one of the best young executives in baseball after rising from intern to key decision-maker in Boston’s front office.<\/p>\n

While Toboni’s background is in scouting — he moved from intern to area scout, then ascended to assistant scouting director and scouting director — he took on a larger portfolio as vice president of scouting and player development before being named assistant GM for Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow.<\/p>\n

The Nationals fired GM Mike Rizzo<\/a> and manager Dave Martinez in July, six years after their surprise run to a World Series title. Rizzo was replaced on an interim basis<\/a> by assistant GM Mike DeBartolo, who was in the mix for the permanent job along with Arizona assistant GM Amiel Sawdaye and Cleveland assistant GM Matt Forman.<\/p>\n

Toboni, who played collegiate ball at Cal, will inherit a team that at 64-94 is struggling to keep pace in a competitive National League East division that features financial leviathans in Philadelphia and New York as well as a solid Atlanta Braves<\/a> core and an ascendant Miami Marlins<\/a> team. The Nationals have a handful of talented young players — chief among them outfielder James Wood<\/a>, shortstop CJ Abrams <\/a>and left-hander MacKenzie Gore<\/a> — but the team’s middling farm system doesn’t foretell a quick turnaround.<\/p>\n

The drastic improvement of Boston’s farm system came under Toboni, who was in charge of the draft when they selected outfielder Roman Anthony<\/a>, shortstop Marcelo Mayer<\/a>, infielder Kristian Campbell<\/a>, left-handers Payton Tolle<\/a> and Connelly Early<\/a> as well as the prospects sent to the Chicago White Sox<\/a> in a trade<\/a> for ace Garrett Crochet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Nationals are finalizing a deal to name Paul Toboni their new head of baseball operations, sources…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-166709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}