There is one solution for the Boston Red Sox

Nobody wants to be GM of the Boston Red Sox. Reportedly they have been turned down by every potential candidate they have reached out to. Can you blame them? On one hand you say, “well it’s the Boston Red Sox. How do you turn that down?” Because they are the most inconsistent owner group in all of sports. There hasn’t been a GM to last more than 4 year since Theo Epstein. Yes, they have won World Series. When the ownership decided to spend money to pull themselves out of last place. The one consistency I think we can see coming is that kind of spending is a thing of the past.

We sat through four years of Chaim Bloom yanking on his spread sheets to realize John Henry would like the run his $5 Billion dollar franchise like the Tampa Bay Rays who couldn’t fill up a high school gym for a Playoff game.

You’ve got Alex Cora in the wings who won the power struggle against Bloom holding all the cards. Who ever is hired basically will be answering to Cora, but take all the heat if the moves don’t work.

So, you’ve got an owner who won’t spend more than than a mid market team, he is guaranteed to fire you in four years whether you come in last place or win a world series, and in the mean time you answer to the manager on personal decisions. Sick job.

But, could there be one candidate to sway all of those precursors in another direction? Kim Ng recently resigned from the Miami Marlins after they did her dirty hiring personal above her head. All she did was build a roster with little to no money and secure a play off spot with some shrewd deadline acquisitions. Oh, by the way she’s a woman. The first ever woman GM in the history of MLB and the highest ranking women executive in all of North American Professional sports. No biggie.

You want to talk about the kind of splash the Red Sox need? This is it, baby. You’ve got a PR win and ostensibly someone who is good at their job from a small market. Someone who actually did the job too. Not a nerd in the back room giving handi’s with algorithms like Chaim Bloom. No, she had the title and did the work. And I’m not saying the Asian angle is a thing with the reported interest in Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto from Japan, I’m just saying it’s a thing. And for the record Ng was born in Indiana. She is of Cantonese Chinese and Thai decent so the Asian connection isn’t actually a thing. But, it totally is.

We are here for entertainments. The last thing the Red Sox have been in recent memory is entertaining. This kind of move would be great for headlines and with Cora calling the shots anyway take a stab it. You don’t want to get boo’d out of your own pep rally next year, pull the trigger on Ms. Ng. There is no way she does worse than Bloom.