It doesn't look like Theo Epstein, Red Sox GM, will be back with the team next year. ESPN.com reports:
General manager Theo Epstein, who becomes a free agent on Nov. 1, turned down an offer of $1.2 million a season for at least three years, The Boston Globe reported.
It appears that money is not the only hurdle in the negotiations -- specifically a personality clash in management styles between Lucchino and Epstein.
It's not known if this offer is the Red Sox final one, but the matter is expected to be resolved either way in the next 24-48 hours, the paper reported.
The personality clash appears to be quite bad, and a Boston Herald columnist says that the Red Sox are "smearing" Esptein.
The Red Sox would be crazy to let Epstein go, and the Nationals would be crazy not to pursue him. Of course, it doesn't help that the Nats don't have an owner yet, and this is just one more example of how Major League Baseball's failure to sell the team in a timely fashion is killing the Nationals' chances to do anything productive.
In any event, while they're considering GM candidates from Boston, the Nats should consider Josh Byrnes, Red Sox Assistant GM. Byrnes apparently is talking with the Diamondbacks about their open GM job.
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