Peter Gammons reported back in September that Cubs assistant GM and VP of Pitching Craig Breslow would be leaving to take a similar role with the Red Sox, though not everything really fit at the time. In addition to reports from Cubs beat writers that there hadn’t been contact, at least not formally, between the Sox and Breslow, but Boston had not even truly begun the search the search to replace the recently deposed Chaim Bloom as president of baseball operations.
Cubs executive Craig Breslow interviewed for Boston’s top job in baseball operations, as @alexspeier reported.