BREAKING NEWS: Boston key player leaves and joins new York with $90.6 million…..

Just one month after a World Series championship, Boston Red Sox Senior Vice President of Player Personnel Allard

Baird is leaving the team to join the New York Mets front office. He will assume the role of Vice President/Assistant

GM of Scouting and Player Development for the Mets.

Baird has been with Boston since 2006, beginning as a special assignment scout. He quickly advanced within the

organization, eventually becoming an assistant to General Manager Theo Epstein later that year. Baird was

designated Vice President of Player Personnel and Scouting in 2011, and he retained that post until taking on his

most recent role in 2015.

At 57 years old, Baird will join his third Major League Baseball team. Before joining the Red Sox, Baird spent

eighteen years with the Kansas City Royals. After working his way up the Royals’ front office, he was elected General

Manager in 2000 and retained the job until 2006.

Baird was crucial to the Red Sox’s success during the last twelve years, and he had a keen eye for potential. He was

highly hands-on in the scouting and draft process, overseeing the addition of key players including the 2018

American League MVP.

While this is a significant blow for the Red Sox executive management, it isn’t entirely unexpected. Other successful

teams, most notably the Houston Astros and Los Angeles Dodgers, have recently engaged in similar organizational

“poaching” practices. Following the 2017 World Series, Astros bench coach Alex Cora was named Red Sox manager,

while recently hired Dodgers general manager Farhan Zaidi joined the San Francisco Giants just a few weeks ago.