Source: Red Sox not considering firing chief baseball officer Craig Breslow

The Red Sox are not considering firing chief baseball officer Craig Breslow, a team source said Monday night.

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Further, amid the team’s underperformance — and speculation that Breslow may be on the hot seat — the club’s ownership hierarchy has not even discussed making a change, the source said.

That represents a measure of clarity at a time when the Red Sox, in Breslow’s third season as the top baseball executive, are navigating an uncertain middle portion of the season. At 27-37 after Monday’s 3-1 loss at the Rays, they sit last in the AL East and have been on the hunt for ways to improve their roster, including on the trade market.

This year has marked a step backward following a playoff berth last season, but despite everything, the Sox were just four games back of a wild-card spot in a weak American League entering Monday.

Already, they made one major move to try to turn it around, firing manager Alex Cora and six of his coaches on April 25. They were 10-17 at the time and are 17-20 since inserting interim manager Chad Tracy.

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In recent weeks, the Red Sox have been focused on trying to bolster their roster, as opposed to trading away big leaguers with an eye on 2027 and beyond. With the trade deadline not until Aug. 3, they have seven weeks or so until they really need to decide on a direction, buyer or seller.

“Having a lot of conversations, a lot of discussions, and I think it’s been kind of true industry-wide,” Breslow said Friday of his trade talks to date. “There are a lot of teams that probably feel pretty similarly to us, which is to say that they have confidence in their rosters, they know they’re not playing as well as they’re capable of, and really nobody has kind of put the postseason out of reach. So there are a bunch of teams that are in it right now and are thinking along the same lines as we are.”

That makes it difficult to find common ground on trades.

“We need to run our own race. We need to make sure that we get kind of our house in order,” Breslow continued. “We need to win more games, and at that point we can kind of figure out where we are relative to the league. But I think the first thing is to continue to build on the progress that we’ve seen offensively over the last month, and then make sure that we’re pitching consistently well. And we need to win games for any of this to matter.”

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