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Green Wave Graduate Mike Hazen Takes Over as Red Sox GM
Hazen Has Passion For Baseball
Jake Snyder
Staff Writer
The Red Sox revamped their front
office prior to the end of their disappointing 2015 season by first hiring
Dave Dombrowski as president of
baseball operations and then Mike
Hazen as senior vice president and
general manager. Dombrowski has six
playoff appearances and one World
Series title under his belt, having
worked previously for the Montreal
Expos, Florida Marlins and Detroit
Tigers. Hazen has been with the Red
Sox since 2006, serving first as director of player development and then
assistant general manager before his
promotion on September 24.
For fans of the Green Wave, Hazen’s
promotion was by far the bigger story.
The Abington native and AHS Class of
1994 graduate was a three sport ath-
lete (soccer, basketball and baseball)
for the Green Wave, and he also
served on the National Honor Society
(as president) and Student Council.
After graduation he attended Princeton University, and played minor
league baseball with the San Diego
Padres organization before beginning
his front office major league baseball
career with the Cleveland Indians as an
intern.
Despite all the work he has on his plate
with the Red Sox, Hazen made time to
answer a few questions for the Green
Wave Gazette. We wanted to know a
little bit about how his time in Abington might have put him on the path to
career success.
How valuable was your time at
AHS in helping your prepare for
the future?
Abington High School provided a
great environment to learn and grow
and prepared me for my next steps
going to college and beyond.
When you were at AHS, did you
know that you wanted a career
in baseball, or did you have another goal in mind?
Boston Red Sox President of Baseball Operations
Dave Dombrowski introduced Mike Hazen as the
I did not have a career goal in mind
new Senior Vice President/General Manager of
when I graduated high school. My only the Boston Red Sox during a press conference at
focus was moving on to college and
Fenway Park on September 24. (Michael Ivins
taking the next steps in my academic Photo Courtesy of the Boston Red Sox)
career. My thoughts on my career did
not come until later, after college.
What advice would you have for
someone who wants to work in
the field of baseball, but not as a
major league player?
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Have a passion for the game and watch
baseball at all levels. There are many
avenues into baseball but, you cannot
thrive in the game without a passion
for it.
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