Red Sox reportedly fired staffer over vulgar Craig Breslow comment

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“Thanks, Bres, you f***ing stiff,” the employee said, according to the report.

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Building a career can take decades. Losing a job can happen in seconds.

According to a recent report from Yahoo! Sports’ Joon Lee, the Red Sox fired scouting supervisor Carl Moesche over a comment he made near the end of a Zoom meeting.

Moesche thought the call was over, but the meeting hadn’t quite wrapped before he uttered a few words of frustration aimed at Chief Baseball Officer Craig Breslow.

“Thanks, Bres, you f***ing stiff,” Moesche said, according to the report.

The words, Lee said, hit like a “grenade” and led Breslow to fire Mosche.

According to Moesche’s LinkedIn page, Moesche had worked for the Red Sox since December of 2017. He has more than four decades of experience and had previous stints as a scouting supervisor for the Yankees and Orioles. He won the Major League Scouting Bureau’s “Scout of the Year” award in 2011.

Discontent within the Red Sox front office “intensified” last May when Breslow hired a consulting firm to audit the organization, according to the report. A “wave of firings” followed, and some longtime staffers felt like their voices weren’t being heard.

Lee’s piece focused on the dysfunction within the Red Sox front office. It was mostly about what led the team to trade Rafael Devers last Sunday. The Red Sox shipped him to San Francisco just days after sweeping a series against the Yankees at Fenway Park.

The move was an example result of eroded trust and and fraying relationships, Lee said.

“The collaborative spirit that once defined Red Sox baseball operations has frayed,” Lee wrote.

Last January, The Athletic’s Keith Law wrote that the Red Sox pulled a “midnight massacre” of their pro scouting department. He called the moves “puzzling.”

“Farm systems don’t get and stay good by accident, or magic. It takes people.”

With Roman Anthony, Marcelo Mayer, and Kristian Campbell in Boston, the Red Sox are counting on an influx of young talent.

Apparently, a few choice words at the end of a Zoom call were enough for the team to terminate a scouting supervisor who may have helped evaluate them.

Khari A. Thompson

Sports Reporter

Khari Thompson covers professional sports for Boston.com. Before joining the team in 2022, Khari covered college football for The Clarion Ledger in Jackson, Miss.

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