Chief Baseball Officer
Craig Breslow was named Chief Baseball Officer for the Boston Red Sox on October 25, 2023. In this role, he is responsible for all baseball operations matters.
Breslow spent the past five seasons in the Chicago Cubs organization, most recently as Assistant General Manager/Senior Vice President, Pitching in 2023. His front office career began in 2019 with the Cubs as Director of Strategic Initiatives, evaluating and implementing data-based processes throughout all facets of baseball operations while also supporting the pitching infrastructure in the farm system. In 2020, he was named Director of Pitching/Special Assistant to the President and General Manager, then spent the 2021-22 seasons as Assistant General Manager/Vice President, Pitching.
A 2013 World Series champion with Boston, Breslow is only the fourth former Red Sox player to lead the club's baseball operations efforts, the first since Haywood Sullivan served as General Manager from 1978-83. Entering 2024, the only other active heads of baseball operations who played in MLB were the White Sox' Chris Getz, the Mariners' Jerry Dipoto, and the Rangers' Chris Young.
Selected by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 26th round of the 2002 First-Year Player Draft, Breslow pitched 12 Major League seasons and recorded a 3.45 ERA over 576 appearances for San Diego (2005), Boston (2006, '12-15), Cleveland (2008, '17), Minnesota (2008-09, '17), Oakland (2009-11), Arizona (2012), and Miami (2016). He appeared in 202 games for the Red Sox, notably posting a 1.81 ERA in 61 outings in the 2013 regular season to help Boston capture the American League East title en route to a World Series championship. Breslow allowed zero earned runs in nine of his 10 Postseason outings in 2013, earning the win in Boston's ALDS-clinching victory over the Rays before securing a hold in the club's ALCS-clinching win over the Tigers.
Breslow graduated in 2002 from Yale University with a degree in molecular biophysics and biochemistry. He was named the "Smartest Man in Baseball" by The Wall Street Journal in 2009, and in 2010 he ranked No. 1 on The Sporting News list of Top 20 Smartest Athletes.
In 2008, Breslow founded the Strike 3 Foundation, which aims to heighten awareness, mobilize support, and raise funding for childhood cancer research. In 2013, he earned the Red Sox' Tim Wakefield Community Service Award and was named the BoSox Club's "Man of the Year." Breslow was nominated for Major League Baseball's Roberto Clemente Award three times, including in 2010 with the Oakland A's and in 2013 and 2014 with the Red Sox.
Born in New Haven, CT, Breslow resides in Newton, MA, with his wife, Kelly, daughter, Livia, and twin boys, Mason and Carter.