San Diego may have snagged Jed Hoyer from Boston last week, but the Padres weren't able to take Mike Hazen, the team's director of player development, away from Yawkey Way.
The 32-year-old Hazen was reportedly offered a job as Hoyer's assistant general manager with the NL West team but Hazen declined and instead will remain with Boston as the club's farm director.
"It was an extremely difficult decision," Hazen told NESN's Peter Gammons.
"The opportunity in San Diego is tremendous. Jed is going to be very
successful, and it doesn't get any better than working with Bud Black
[Padres manager]. But the situation in Boston is unique, there is a
tremendous spirit in the organization and I have a lot of things that
remain to be completed."
When Hoyer fled, assistant general manager Ben Cherrington slid from his role of overseeing the scouting and player-development departments to being Theo Epstein's lone No. 2 man — a position Hoyer had owned.
The Abington, Mass., native and former Padres' minor leaguer has been the Red Sox' director of player development since 2006, when he came over from the Indians.
