{"id":103381,"date":"2025-10-05T21:21:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T21:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=103381"},"modified":"2025-10-05T21:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T21:21:17","slug":"red-sox-offseason-plans-change-after-nationals-poach-top-executive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=103381","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox offseason plans change after Nationals poach top executive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><main id=\"main-container\" role=\"main\"><\/main>The Boston Red Sox are already looking ahead to next season following their loss to the New York Yankees in the first round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Boston returned to the playoffs for the first time since 2021 after posting an 89-73 record, but couldn&#8217;t make it past New York in the wild card round. According to reports toward the end of the regular season, one of the Red Sox&#8217;s\u00a0top priorities this offseason\u00a0was to hire a second-in-command to chief baseball officer Craig Breslow.<\/p>\n<p>Former assistant general manager Paul Toboni was close to being named Boston&#8217;s GM before the Washington Nationals poached the executive, naming Toboni their new president of baseball operations,\u00a0according to\u00a0MassLive&#8217;s Sean McAdam.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to an industry source, the Sox and Paul Toboni were &#8216;pretty far down the road&#8217; on a deal to elevate Toboni into the role of GM,&#8221; McAdam wrote Sunday morning. &#8220;But with the Washington Nationals having made Toboni their new president of baseball operations, there&#8217;s now far less urgency for the Sox to name anyone for that role.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The chief reason to promote Toboni would have been to prevent a rival from poaching him, and while there are valued members of the current Baseball Operations staff, the Sox feel they&#8217;re in no danger of losing anyone. Thus, status quo could prevail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox clearly did not want to lose one of their top executives, and were willing to elevate Toboni to retain him. Now that Washington has poached him, Boston&#8217;s offseason plans are likely to change as there&#8217;s now no urgency to hire a GM.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Red Sox can direct their attention to other matters that are urgent, like trying to bring back Alex Bregman who is predicted to opt out of his contract.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Red Sox will reportedly be taking a step back and changing their offseason plans after the Washington Nationals poached executive Paul Toboni.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":103382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Red Sox offseason plans change after Nationals poach top executive - 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