Red Sox Top Internal Candidate Reportedly Declines Interview for GM Role
Another day has gone by for the Boston Red Sox and their search for a new general manager, and yet another person has declined an interview for the role.
Red Sox assistant GM Raquel Ferreira confirmed Tuesday, to MassLive's Chris Cotillo, that she has taken her name out of the running for Boston's top baseball ops position for family reasons.
“(Team president Sam Kennedy) and I sat down for a while and discussed interviewing for the position,” Ferreira said in a text to Cotillo. “While I was grateful to be considered, I candidly told him that it’s not the right move for me right now when it doesn’t make sense for me and my family. I’m not closing the door on any future opportunity because things could be different for me a year or two from now.”
Ferreira has been in the Red Sox organization for 25 years and has chosen to remain in her current role instead of taking a big leap to the top decision-maker for the club.
The list of highly regarded baseball minds who have turned down the opportunity of new Red Sox GM just continues to grow. This list reportedly includes Phillies GM Sam Fuld, Dodgers GM Brandon Gomes, former Marlins boss and current MLB executive Michael Hill and former Rangers GM Jon Daniels.
There is certainly something to be said about the amount of people who haven't even wanted to interview for this position, forget entertaining the idea of actually taking over the job.
Part of me is glad this has seemingly been a difficult process for the Red Sox. The way they kicked former chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom out the door and implied that they wouldn't stand for the mistakes he made anymore, the same mistakes that they stood (and hid) behind, has led them to a bumpy road in trying to find Bloom's successor.
Few individuals would want to jump into a position such as the Red Sox's GM role that will seemingly have several other voices and opinions factoring into the decision-making process. When factoring that in on top of the fact that their manager is already selected, and will have much more ownership support than Bloom's successor -- it's unsurprising that the Red Sox are struggling to find a new leader of baseball operations.
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