Former Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington has emerged as a candidate for the Pirates GM position, according to Ken Rosenthal.
Former #RedSox GM Ben Cherington has emerged as a candidate to be the #Pirates’ new head of baseball operations, sources tell The Athletic. Cherington, 45, was the Sox GM from Oct. 2011 to Aug. 2015, and has been the #BlueJays’ VP of baseball operations since Sept. 2016.
Cherington, 45, was the Red Sox general manager from October 2011 to August 2015. He inherited the job after the team’s infamous “chicken and beer” collapse in 2011 and built a World Series winner in 2013, but was ultimately fired after the Red Sox had three losing seasons in four years.