{"id":915115,"date":"2026-11-12T19:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T19:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/915115\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T19:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T19:42:09","slug":"boston-red-sox-shifts-craig-breslows-title-to-president-of-baseball-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/915115\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Red Sox shifts Craig Breslow\u2019s title to president of baseball operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">The Red Sox changing Chief Baseball Officer Craig Breslow\u2019s title to president of baseball operations \u201creflects a more standard title\u201d and could \u201cmake it easier to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/11\/09\/red-sox-eye-front-office-additions-amid-wave-of-executive-departures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/11\/09\/red-sox-eye-front-office-additions-amid-wave-of-executive-departures\/\">bring in front office talent from outside the organization<\/a>,\u201d according to Alex Speier of the BOSTON GLOBE. The change comes three years after Breslow was hired to run the Red Sox\u2019 baseball operations department, and less than two months after the team announced it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/09\/23\/red-sox-extend-cbo-breslow-manager-tracy-as-reward-for-massive-turnaround\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/09\/23\/red-sox-extend-cbo-breslow-manager-tracy-as-reward-for-massive-turnaround\/\">picking up his contract options<\/a> for 2029 and 2030. Speier reported the switch \u201coccurred in recent weeks without a formal announcement.\u201d With former assistant GMs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/10\/07\/breslow-non-committal-on-filling-red-sox-gm-role-after-toboni-exit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/10\/07\/breslow-non-committal-on-filling-red-sox-gm-role-after-toboni-exit\/\">Paul Toboni<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/10\/19\/as-name-red-sox-exec-taylor-smith-president-of-baseball-operations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/10\/19\/as-name-red-sox-exec-taylor-smith-president-of-baseball-operations\/\">Taylor Smith<\/a> gone, Breslow has \u201cdiscussed front office additions as one of his top priorities.\u201d Red Sox President &amp; CEO Sam Kennedy said that the renaming of Breslow\u2019s role also \u201cserves as a reflection of the view of team owners of his leadership of the baseball operations department.\u201d Breslow \u201cexpressed appreciation\u201d for the title change, though he noted that it \u201cdidn\u2019t meaningfully affect his job\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2026\/11\/11\/sports\/red-sox-craig-breslow-title\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BOSTON GLOBE, 11\/11<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">BUSINESS AS USUAL: In Boston, Mac Cerullo notes the title change brings Breslow \u201cmore in line with the rest of the league where that title is commonly used to signify a club\u2019s top decision-maker.\u201d Cerullo: \u201cFrom a practical perspective nothing about Breslow\u2019s job will change. He will still lead the Red Sox\u2019s baseball operations department and be the responsible for executing trades, free agent signings and everything else he\u2019s done for the past three seasons.\u201d The move could also \u201cset the table for further reorganization of the Red Sox front office,\u201d including the hiring of a GM or the promotion of internal executives. Breslow said that there \u201cisn\u2019t a premeditated next step but changes like that are always possible\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2026\/11\/12\/red-sox-boss-craig-breslow-confirms-he-has-been-given-new-title\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BOSTON HERALD, 11\/12<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Red Sox changing Chief Baseball Officer Craig Breslow\u2019s title to president of baseball operations \u201creflects a more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[1558,374,6856,363,99],"class_list":["post-915115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-leadership","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}