The upcoming baseball offseason promises to be a thrilling one, but until the end of the World Series, there’s not much Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow, or any other major league team’s top baseball operations executive, can do.

But what if you could? If you ran the Red Sox, what would you do?

‘Play general manager for a day,’ our editor told me and Herald colleague Mac Cerullo. (Or in Boston’s case, chief baseball officer.) ‘Don’t limit’ to roster moves was the directive.

First, some ground rules. In order to truly wield unfettered power, we must suspend the realities of the job. Finalizing contracts can take days, and construction might require months, especially in Boston. After all, the Big Dig was originally conceived in the early 1970s, construction began in December

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