Sam Kennedy confirms Craig Breslow’s job is safe, but Red Sox could become deadline sellers in ‘embarrassing’ season
Red Sox president and CEO Sam Kennedy, in an interview Thursday on WEEI’s “The Greg Hill Show,” confirmed a Globe report that the team is not considering firing chief baseball officer Craig Breslow.
However, Kennedy described the team’s 27-39 record, last place in the American League East, as “embarrassing and unacceptable, maddening, [and] frustrating,” and suggested that barring a dramatic turnaround, the Sox will have to shift their trade deadline focus away from efforts to upgrade the 2026 roster.
Kennedy said the Sox entered 2026 with a belief that the club, coming off last year’s 89-win season and first postseason appearance since 2021, could achieve its “stated goal of taking that next step in October … And here we are. It’s 66 games in, we’ve played 40 percent of the season, and [the Sox are] 12 games under .500 and last in the AL East. That’s pretty much all we need to know. It’s just not acceptable.”
Some highlights from Kennedy’s WEEI interview:
⋅ The Globe reported on Monday that the Sox hadn’t considered firing Breslow. Kennedy confirmed that: “I fully understand and appreciate questions regarding Craig Breslow and his job security and all that, but the issue of a change there, just to be clear, it’s not even on the table.”
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⋅ In an interview with WEEI last month, Kennedy disputed the suggestion that outfielder Roman Anthony had suffered a tear rather than a sprain in the hand/wrist injury that has sidelined him for the last five weeks. Anthony subsequently detailed that he’d suffered a partial tear of a ligament in his right ring finger. On Thursday, Kennedy apologized for mischaracterizing the injury. “A sprain is a tear,” said Kennedy. “I apologize for my mistake there. I’ve communicated with Roman about that.”
⋅ The Sox have discussed adding a righthanded bat, and according to Kennedy, the team continues to explore ways to upgrade the roster. But Kennedy also made clear the Sox may have to change their focus to future improvement. “There are a lot of discussions going on in terms of improvement and how we get this thing back on track,” said Kennedy. “But look, let’s be honest. Unless things change dramatically, we may have to pivot here from what our initial planning was. It wouldn’t be responsible to do otherwise. We’re here in mid-June. We need to see what happens over the next couple weeks, and then we’ll reassess.
“We’re going to try and find ways to improve, and hope that things start to get better through change, or additions, or subtractions. We have to do everything we possibly can and keep going. But if things don’t change dramatically here over the next couple weeks, we’re going to have to pivot from our initial planning and the initial expectations.”
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