After firing chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom last month, the Red Sox are in the midst of a search for their next baseball operations leader. Team president recently spoke to regarding the clubs preferences in their search, and made clear that the club is open to a hire who doesnt have experience as the top decision maker in a front office. Kennedy Jared Harper Jersey referred to past experience in a front office leadership role as definitely not a requirement before referencing GMs from around the league who had succe s in their first job as a top front office executive, including Yankees GM Brian Cashman and former Red Sox and Cubs executive Theo Epstein. McAdam goes on to reference Phillies GM , Dodgers GM , and Red Sox a sistant GM Eddie Romero as candidates the Red Sox have interest in who have never led a baseball operations department before, though he also notes more experienced candidates the club has been linked to such as Marlins GM Kim Ng (whose in Miami) and former Astros GM James Click, who as vice president of baseball strategy for the Blue Jays. The Red Sox had also been previously reported to have interest in Diamondbacks GM Mike Hazen, though the po sibility of Hazen departing Arizona was squashed by his with the club. Referencing the potential of a job with the Red Sox following his extension, Hazen his ties to Boston before emphasizing that he wasnt ready to leave Arizona. Aside from the clubs ongoing GM search, McAdam pushes back against a recent report from the , which characterizes Boston as a real threat to sign two-way superstar this offseason. Despite that, McAdam that Ohtani was not at all a focus of Bostons early meetings regarding their offseason plans, and that principal owner John Henry is against the sort of long-term megadeal it would surely require to lure Ohtani to the Red Sox. To McAdams point, prior to the clubs $331MM extension with third baseman , the club had signed a contract that surpa ses $200MM just once by signing left-hander to a seven-year, $217MM pact. With the Devers deal freshly on the books on top of existing deals for shortstop and left-hander , its difficult to imagine the Red Sox offering the ma sive contract it would likely require to land Ohtani. Willis Reed Jersey