Craig Breslow Opens Up About ‘Great’ Relationship With Red Sox Predecessor originally appeared on NESN.
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The last two chief baseball officers of the Boston Red Sox, Craig Breslow and Chaim Bloom, are surprisingly close.
Breslow replaced Bloom in 2023 following Bloom’s four-year stint running the Red Sox’s baseball operations department. Bloom now works as president of baseball operations for the St. Louis Cardinals, but he and his family still live in the Boston area.
Both men have sons in the same suburban Little League, so they spend a good amount of time together at games, according to The Athletic’s Jen McCaffrey (subscription required).
No wonder they struck two major trades this offseason, bringing Sonny Gray and Willson Contreras from the Cardinals to Boston.
They’re both huge baseball lovers in their 40s who went to Yale, so it’s not hard to see why they get along so well.
As Craig Breslow enters Year 3 in Boston – for a job none of his recent predecessors held more than 3.5 seasons – he knows its crunch time.
“As soon as you start thinking about (the end), you’re probably defeated.“
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— Jen McCaffrey (@jcmccaffrey) March 25, 2026
“We have a great relationship, and we obviously have had very similar experiences, and so, it does make for interesting conversations,” Breslow told McCaffrey. “And yeah, at games, we’ll have to find ways to kind of peel off behind the fence or something to make sure nobody overheard these St. Louis and Boston discussions.”
While they’ve had lots of in-depth baseball conversations, they’ve surprisingly never discussed working for the Red Sox specifically, according to Breslow.
“We’ve never had an explicit conversation about it,” Breslow told McCaffrey. “I think there’s just, hopefully, an understanding and a respect for the jobs that each of us has to do. He did a lot of really good things here, so I’m thankful for the people that we have here and the young talent that we have here.”
Despite three last-place finishes during his four seasons with Boston, Bloom did a great job rebuilding the farm system and laying the foundation for the current team. Breslow has been able to build around the young, homegrown core he inherited from Bloom, supplementing it with trades and free-agent signings.
Several of those trades were even made with Bloom, who knows the Red Sox farm system well and clearly has no issue making deals with his successor.
Based on their strong relationship, it won’t be surprising if they continue to do business together in the future.
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