BOSTON — In recent weeks, Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow said that one of his early offseason priorities would be to name a clear No. 2 in his front office by promoting someone to the general manager role. But on Monday, at the team’s end-of-season press conference at Fenway Park, he was non-committal about doing so.

When Breslow went public with his desire to name a GM in mid-September, he did so with then-assistant GM Paul Toboni atop his wish list of candidates . The consensus was that the 35-year-old Toboni, on the fast track in executive circles, was going to get the job, in part because the Red Sox felt like a promotion might keep him from joining another organization. Toboni then interviewed with the Nationals, who decided to hire him as their president of baseball

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