Red Sox Poach Prominent Member Of Yankees' Player Development Staff

That's one way to play catch up in the division

Scott Neville | Nov 9, 2022

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The Boston Red Sox are exhausting all options to improve on their last-place finish in the American League East standings last season.

Those options apparently now include inter-division player development staff poaching.

The Red Sox hired Andrew Wright as their new minor league field coordinator according to The Boston Globe's Alex Speier and Pete Abraham's report, published Tuesday. Wright previously spent four years in the New York Yankees player development system.

Wright's most-recent title was the Yankees' director of Dominican baseball operations. Sounds like a key piece for New York to lose out on, and the Red Sox can take the credit.

Petty or not, the idea of taking away a cog in the Yankees' empire and bringing that person to Boston essentially doubles his value.

Not only does he improve the Red Sox staff, but he worsens the Yankees, creating a bigger talent gap than if Boston brought someone in from the National League.

We'll likely never see the hire have a front-facing impact on the team, but it could have tangible ripple effects behind the scenes.

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Published Nov 9, 2022

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