Red Sox principal owner John Henry and chairman Tom Werner expressed a desire to get the team under the $208 million luxury tax threshold in 2020, and said they will likely hire a new baseball operations leader from outside of the organization to help do it.
Henry and Werner met with members of the media Friday evening and offered their first comments since Dave Dombrowski was fired as the president of baseball operations on Sept. 8.
The pair didn’t offer a timetable to fill the position, but expressed confidence in the team’s four top executives who are running the department, saying that Brian O’Halloran, Eddie Romero, Zack Scott, and Raquel Ferreira can handle running the organization while the search continues.