Overview

• Minnesota has requested permission from Boston to interview Vázquez for its managerial opening, according to multiple reports.
• Standard MLB practice typically grants coaches interviews for promotions, so approval is widely expected though not announced.
• Vázquez, 49, serves as the Red Sox bench coach and has been with the organization since 2018.
• His managerial experience is limited to one MLB fill-in game, the Puerto Rican winter league, and a season in A-ball, and this would be his first publicly reported MLB managerial interview.
• The vacancy follows a 70-92 season and Rocco Baldelli’s dismissal, with any new manager likely facing a rebuild framed by reduced payroll and roster turnover.