The Boston Red Sox are already looking ahead to next season following their loss to the New York Yankees in the first round of the playoffs.

Boston returned to the playoffs for the first time since 2021 after posting an 89-73 record, but couldn't make it past New York in the wild card round. According to reports toward the end of the regular season, one of the Red Sox's top priorities this offseason was to hire a second-in-command to chief baseball officer Craig Breslow.

Former assistant general manager Paul Toboni was close to being named Boston's GM before the Washington Nationals poached the executive, naming Toboni their new president of baseball operations, according to MassLive's Sean McAdam.

"According to an industry source, the Sox and Paul Toboni were 'pretty far down the r

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