Sam Kennedy (baseball executive)

Samuel H. Kennedy (born 1973) is an American professional baseball executive who is the president and CEO of the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball.

Kennedy has been a member of the baseball club's upper management hierarchy since March 2002. He was named the successor to longtime Red Sox president Larry Lucchino on August 1, 2015, when Lucchino announced his decision to retire from his executive positions with the team at the close of the 2015 Boston Red Sox season. Lucchino's chief executive officer post was initially left vacant, and on August 18, 2015, the Red Sox also named veteran MLB executive Dave Dombrowski to the new position of president, baseball operations. On August 2, 2017, the Red Sox and Fenway Sports Management announced Kennedy's appointment as chief executive officer, and signed him to a new five-year contract as both CEO and president.

Prior to August 2015, Kennedy had been the Red Sox' executive vice president and chief operating officer and president of Fenway Sports Management since May 2009.

The son of an Episcopal priest, Kennedy is a native of Brookline, Massachusetts. He attended Brookline High School and was a classmate of Theo Epstein, the general manager of the Red Sox from 2003–11 (and, since then, president, baseball operations, of the Chicago Cubs). At Brookline High School, Kennedy was captain of both the boys' hockey and baseball teams. He then attended Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where he played baseball and football and earned a bachelor's degree in 1995.

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