I'm not feeling enthusiastic. There were definitely worse choices out there, but I don't think Breslow has enough experience in all the facets needed to be a successful #1; I don't think the Red Sox are a training wheels situation, not with the office politics, the difficult media and fanbase, and the impatient ownership. It's not really an indictment of Breslow, more of the situation he's walking into. I'm encouraged that Breslow has more experience in various areas than the zero I was originally thinking, but I'm put off by how much soft stuff he likely didn't pick up on with the remote work arrangement, and even besides that, a short stint shadowing Jed Hoyer isn't enough to be PBO in Boston, IMO. Hoyer himself rocketed up the ladder and went from intern to GM in 7 years, which is already abnormally fast; he's done fine for himself but it's unusual. And Tom Ricketts has been a lot more patient with his baseball ops people than FSG.
This is not at all the same organization, or the same MLB, that 28-year-old Theo Epstein dealt with in 2002. I'm worried that something has gotten increasingly smelly high up in the organization, and the way this search went hasn't allayed any of that. I hope Breslow succeeds, but I'm not sold on this move. I also wonder what he's going to be walking into taking a #1 chair from the position of what could be regarded as an upstart, inheriting a bunch of people who were competing for him and passed over. I think it's going to start bumpy, and definitely has the potential to come good, but I'm not sure he's going to get the rope he needs.