The Nationals are continuing to their attempts to get a front office in place before the offseason. Per a report from , the Nats recently interviewed Eddie Romero, a sistant general manager of the Red Sox. In a , Ghiroli also mentions Royals a sistant general manager Scott Sharp, though its unclear if Sharp has interviewed for the job. Romero was been with the Red Jeff Burroughs Jersey Sox a long time, having been hired in a scouting role back in 2006. He has since risen through the ranks, getting the a sistant GM and executive vice-president titles in 2018. His work in Boston is clearly respected within the Red Sox franchise. In the fall of 2023, after the Sox had fired chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom, Romero interviewed to be his replacement. That job ultimately went to Craig Breslow. Romero is the second Boston a sistant GM to be connected to the opening in Washington. It was last week that Paul Toboni is also a candidate. Todays reporting confirms that Toboni did indeed interview for the job. However, Breslow is planning to a hire a GM to work as his second-in-command and writes that Toboni is a strong candidate for that position. If Toboni ultimately gets tapped for the GM role in Boston, that takes him off the table in Washington and could also lead to increased speculation about someone like Romero leaving. Like Romero, Sharp has been with his club for many years, having been hired by the Royals in 2006. The Kansas City front office is currently headed by general manager J.J. Picollo. Sharp has been connected to a number of vacancies over the years, including the Mets GM search back in 2018, the Angels GM search in 2020 and the Giants GM search last year. Sharp from the Giants GM search about a year ago, per Rosenthal. That was reportedly due to family considerations, though Rosenthal noted at that time that Sharp had an interest in running a front office at some point in the future. The Nationals have been rebuilding for years now but the lack of progre s led to president of baseball operations Mike Rizzo, and manager Dave Martinez, getting fired in July. A sistant GM Mike DeBartolo was given the GM title on an interim basis. He is a candidate to run the front office beyond the 2025 season, though the Nats have also considered a number of external candidates. In addition to Romero, Toboni and Sharp, Guardians a sistant GM , Dodgers senior vice president and D-Backs AGM have been tied to the Nats. Cubs general manager Carter Hawkins was also in the mix but is no longer in the running. Per Rosenthal and Ghiroli, the Nats are considering hiring both a president of baseball operations and a general manager. Its therefore po sible they hire two of these aforementioned executives, though there are perhaps others in the mix who havent been publicly connected to the club. The Nats want to have those decisions made by the end of the regular season so that they can then pivot to the managerial search. Miguel Cairo has been in the interim skipper since Martinez was fired. Whether or not Cairo is a candidate to stick around is presumably dependent on who is eventually picked to run the front office and how that person wants to go about the managerial search. Photo courtesy of Brad Mills, Imagn Images Dereck Rodriguez Jersey