Chaim bloom5/5/2023 ![]() Consider the $90 million (plus $15.4M posting fee) contract he handed out the same day of Bogaerts’ departure to Masataka Yoshida, which led to an extremely rare (albeit anonymous) consensus that the G.M. There can be obvious value in zigging when everyone zags, and Bloom has committed to the strategy of doing so at the cost of making himself the easiest target in the sport when things go wrong. It’s more likely that the sheer magnitude of the 11-year, $280 million deal put in stark relief how far afield Bloom is from the peers with whom he’s competing, both those on other teams and the ones before him in Boston. Given what we know about the Sox’s pitiful offer, Bogey’s departure can’t have come as a surprise. It is hard not to read it and come to the conclusion that he cares a great deal about it - and he should!Ĭonsider the Julian McWilliams Boston Globe piece filed from a gate at San Diego International Airport, where an apparently shell-shocked Bloom could hardly put the loss of Bogaerts into words. As an exercise in public relations on Bloom’s part, it was shockingly ineffective. On Friday, Chris Cotillo published a peek-behind-the-curtain interview with Chaim Bloom on MassLive during which the GM repeatedly claimed that he didn’t care how much shit he had to take (his words) to build a winning team. In the wake of Bogaerts’ megadeal with the Padres, angry fans have recriminated against ownership, management and even journalists for passing along what is, in retrospect, obvious misinformation. “We’re going to be ready now with the talent we have and some guys who aren’t up here yet to surround him the right way so we can get back to winning the right way so we never have to go through what we went through again.It’s become clear that the Red Sox have long known that they were never going to offer Xander Bogaerts a contract that he would accept. Why? Because we’re going to be ready to back up that bet,” Bloom said. But after a last-place finish, Bloom acknowledged that 2022 “didn’t work out as well,” adding “I’ll own that.”ĭespite the last-place finish though, Bloom believes that the Red Sox are more equipped to handle the $300-plus million contract with Devers entering the 2023 season than they were with Betts in 2020. ![]() It also allowed the Red Sox to continue to make moves in 2022 too, such as signing Trevor Story to a big-money deal. ![]() #RedSox /rRUP6bzhH0- Mark Leonard January 21, 2023īloom mentioned that the Betts trade allowed the Red Sox to add players like Kiké Hernández ahead of the 2021 season, in which they reached the ALCS. “We didn’t sign him, and when we make those bets, they’re big bets, and those bets – hang with me here – those bets, those bets, you don’t know it, you guys are smart, but those bets are much better up front than on the backend.Ĭhaim Bloom booed loudly when introduced at Winter Weekend. ![]() It relates to where we’re going,” Bloom said. And we didn’t sign him and I want to explain why. “At this same time three years ago, everybody knows it, we were faced with a similar choice: one year away from free agency with a superstar player. Bloom believes that the Red Sox weren’t well-equipped to surround Betts with a winnable roster with the big contract he was about going to command in free agency (he ended up signing a 12-year, $365 million extension with the Dodgers).Īs Bloom explained that, though, he was met with some more boos. We also had to think about some other things.”īloom was asked why the Red Sox made the decision to extend Rafael Devers, who signed a 10-year, $313.5 million deal earlier in January, after they traded Mookie Betts in February 2020. ![]() “A lot of that we’re going to have to do the old-fashioned way, right? Scout, sign, and develop. ![]()
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