MLB Insider Floats Pair Of Dodgers Execs As Possibilities To Replace Chaim Bloom

MLB Insider Floats Pair Of Dodgers Execs As Possibilities To Fill Red Sox's Front-Office Vacancy

Scott Neville | Sep 30, 2023

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The Boston Red Sox must fill a pair of front-office vacancies ahead of a challenging offseason.

The Red Sox will have to find an external candidate to run the show, likely a younger candidate who has been a part of one of the top baseball operations in the league. Last time, Boston elected to loot from the Tampa Bay Rays pipeline in an effort to rebuild the organization from the ground up. The journey was rough but the job did get done.

Looking at the current landscape of Major League Baseball, paired with the position the Red Sox are in (able to spend), who better to poach from than the Los Angeles Dodgers?

"For the Red Sox’s top exec job, either of two Dodgers execs could fit: Massachusetts product Brandon Gomes or ex-Red Sox exec Josh Byrnes," the New York Post's Jon Heyman wrote Thursday. "(Oakland Athletics) general manager David Forst, a Harvard man, also makes sense."

Gomes should be one of the most highly-coveted young executives in baseball. The 37-year-old is in his second season as the executive vice president and general manager of the Dodgers. The former reliever is Andrew Friedman's right-hand man and had been the assistant general manager from 2019-2021 prior to his promotion. If anyone can build a sustainable winning factory in Boston, it's likely going to be the man who has had a massive influence on Los Angeles' sustained success.

Byrnes would make a lot of sense as well. The Dodgers' senior vice president of baseball operations has been with Los Angeles for the better part of a decade. He also was the Red Sox's assistant general manager between 2003-05 -- and played a part in Boston's 2004 World Series Championship.

Forst was mentioned as well, a man who studied under Billy Beane in the Moneyball Era but probably does not fit the current mold Boston is searching for.

Typically, after firings, the Red Sox ownership tends to completely flip the script. They just fired an executive of a similar mindset and likely will go for an executive with more of a big-market temperament.

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Published Sep 30, 2023

SCOTT NEVILLE

Scott Neville covers the Boston Red Sox for Sports Illustrated's new page "Inside The Red Sox." Before starting "Inside The Red Sox", Neville attended Merrimack College, where he earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Communication and Media with a minor in Marketing. Neville spent all four years with Merrimack's radio station WMCK, where he grew as a radio/podcast host and producer. His propensity for being in front of a microphone eventually expanded to film, where he produced multiple short films alongside his then-roommate and current co-worker Stephen Mottram. On a journey that began as a way to receive easy credits via film classes, he received a call from "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" star Charlie Day. Day advised him to make a feature-length film, which he completed his senior year. While writing the film, Neville completed an internship for United Way as part of their NFL Partnership Program. Neville ran the blog for a team of interns and hosted an internet show called "United Way's NFL Partnership Series" where he interviewed NFL alumni. After college Neville wrote for SB Nation's "Over The Monster," a Red Sox sister site of the flagship brand. His work would eventually lead him to a job as a content producer with NESN, where he would cover all sports. After developing as a writer with the top regional network in the world, he was given the opportunity to join the Sports Illustrated Media Group in his current endeavor as the publisher of "Inside The Red Sox." The successful launch and quick rise of "Inside The Red Sox" led to Neville joining the Baseball Essential ownership group, a national baseball site under SIMG. Follow him on Twitter: @ScottNeville46 Email: nevilles@merrimack.edu