Among Fenway Park’s many idiosyncrasies, there’s one that has seemed particularly fitting in recent days: The temperature can’t be lowered in the boss’s office.
“I have a dial on the heater, but I’m pretty sure it’s just for show, because I think the wire that’s supposed to connect it is actually dangling on the floor,” chief baseball officer Craig Breslow said this week. “It’s usually the same temperature ― like, 85 degrees, and that’s 365 days a year.”
That ongoing simmer serves as a convenient metaphor for life inside the Red Sox front office, particularly since last week’s trade of Rafael Devers.
Twenty months into his tenure, Breslow acknowledges a need to reassess his interactions with players, coaches, and members of the front office.
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