Former Boston Red Sox third baseman Alex Bregman may have stopped chief baseball officer Craig Breslow from making changes to the coaching staff last season.
According to one version of events, "Bregman stepped in last year and stopped the firings" of some coaches, a player from the 2025 team told Chad Jennings, Jen McCaffrey, Patrick Mooney, and Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic.
Other sources didn't go so far as to state Bregman saved anyone's jobs but told The Athletic he was outspoken in advocating for hitting coaches Pete Fatse, Dillon Lawson, and Joe Cronin.
Breslow dismissed manager Alex Cora and five members of the Red Sox coaching staff Saturday, including all three hitting coaches. The team said game-planning coach Jason Varitek would be reassigned to another role within the organization.
There are no coaches left on the major-league staff who were with the Red Sox before Breslow took over as chief baseball officer in October 2023.
Bregman left Boston after one season, signing a five-year, $175-million deal with the Chicago Cubs.
One source told The Athletic that Breslow "wanted to fire everybody who was here before he got here. That's what he has now."
Breslow said he didn't consider making coaching changes last season and didn't enter 2026 aiming to restructure the staff.
"These decisions were driven by the performance on the field," Breslow said.
"And I've said it before, I take accountability for the product on the field, for the roster. I also take responsibility for trying to find solutions. And just felt like we have a ton of confidence in the team, in the players, in the guys in the clubhouse. This decision was really, really hard, but we wanted to do it at a point where we still had enough of the season ahead of us that we could be the team that we thought we could be."
The Red Sox are 12-18 entering play Wednesday.
