New applicant surfaces for the Red Sox front office position.

The Boston Red Sox are looking for their new baseball operations manager.
One of the freshmen has roots that are only an hour’s drive from Fenway Park.

After four seasons with the team, the Red Sox let chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom go last month.
Neal Huntington, the former general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, is under consideration to succeed Bloom, according to Red Sox radio host Rob Bradford, who obtained this information from “multiple sources.”. Amherst, New Hampshire, is where Huntington was born.

As the Pirates’ general manager, Huntington served for 12 seasons.
The team had four winning seasons and three straight seasons of the playoffs from 2013 to 2015 during that time period.

2013 was the Bucs’ best season under Huntington.
The team came up one win short of qualifying for the NLCS that year, and star outfielder Andrew McCutchen was named the NL MVP.

In four seasons under Bloom’s direction, the Red Sox only once reached the postseason. Boston had identical 78-84 records at the end of 2022 and 2023.
With the Red Sox having a 73-72 record nearing the end of the regular season, the team’s management team fired Bloom in September.

With the infamous Mookie Betts trade, which incensed many Red Sox supporters, Bloom’s time in Boston officially began.
Since losing the former AL MVP, the team has struggled to field a winning roster on a regular basis.

Huntington’s chances have improved because the Red Sox have already eliminated one prominent candidate for the position of baseball operations chief.