Speier in the Glob has the info on a re-org, seems related to the Sportsology consultant audit of the organization:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/10/29/sports/boston-red-sox-front-office/
Swift Smith is in charge of R&D:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/10/29/sports/boston-red-sox-front-office/
Mike Groopman will oversee acquisitions:As Breslow nears the anniversary of his hiring — a time that has come with the shifting dynamics of not only new leadership but also internal and external reviews (including an audit conducted by Sportsology), the departures of several longtime employees, and job and title changes for many members of the front office — the dust has settled on the larger shape of the organization’s restructuring efforts.
Paul Toboni will be in charge of development still, but no longer scouting. Chris Stasio now Director of Major League Developnment.The Sox have redefined the work of their front office members around four pillars beneath Breslow: acquisitions, development, R&D, and operations. Each of those areas will be overseen by a different member of the senior leadership team.
Assistant general manager Mike Groopman, who oversaw the team’s analytics efforts for the last three years, will oversee acquisitions — an area that encompasses both amateur and professional player additions, including the team’s amateur, international, and pro scouting departments.
New hire TaylorAssistant GM Paul Toboni, who’d overseen both player development and scouting, will now focus on development, an area that encompasses not only the domestic farm system but also the team’s Dominican Republic academy as well as development at the major league level. (The Sox have created a new position — director of major league development — that will be filled by Chris Stasio, who’d been assistant farm director in recent years.)
Role changes for a couple of longtime front office people:R&D, which includes not only analytics and systems development but areas such as sport science and biomechanics, will be overseen by newly hired assistant GM Taylor Smith, who joined the Sox from the Rays last week after serving as Tampa Bay’s director of predictive modeling.
Operations will be overseen by executive vice president Brian O’Halloran.
Two assistant GMs will work across departments. Raquel Ferreira will work with budgets as well as with player and staff engagement and retention. Eddie Romero is likewise expected to work across different organizational lanes in a player personnel role. His responsibilities will focus heavily on the big league roster and staff.
While the reporting lines for both international scouting and the Dominican academy had gone up to Romero for more than a decade, the team will now fold its international scouting and player development efforts into the development and acquisitions verticals. Romero is expected to have a continued presence in both areas as part of his jack-of-many-trades role that will also include scouting, player development, and major league responsibilities.