According to Fox Sports' Ken Rosenthal, the Red Sox are close to hiring Andrew Bailey as the team's next pitching coach. Alex Speier of The Boston Globe later confirmed that Boston is nearing an agreement with the 39-year-old Bailey, who spent the last four years as the Giants' pitching coach.
The 2009 AL Rookie of the Year already has a close bond with Breslow, with the duo spending five years together as teammates with both the A's and Red Sox. Bailey still serves on the board as the director of development of the Strike 3 Foundation, the charity Breslow created to support research of pediatric cancer. But even with his connections to Breslow, it was far from a guarantee that Boston was going to reel in Bailey - who was well-regarded in MLB circles for his coaching resume with both the Giants and Angels.
The Red Sox have plenty of work to do when it comes to bolstering a lackluster pitching personnel that ranked 21st in MLB last season in ERA (4.52). The case can be made that Boston needs to sign at least one or two impact starters to lift a rotation that labored through most of 2023 due to injuries and inconsistency.
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