Right, once Bloom turned down an offer to get rid of Sale, that burden become his to own.Bloom also turned down a Sale trade to the Rangers because he was quibbling over prospects. He could’ve snapped that tether but for whatever reason couldn’t.
This job was much too big for Bloom. I think Henry finally realized that sometime last year.
Also, Bloom signed Story to a longer and more lucrative deal than Gausman, as well as Yoshida last year to far bigger deals than many of those I mentioned.
I find it incredibly difficult to believe that Henry would have said “no, you can’t sign Bassitt for $69m, Taillon for $76m or Senga for $85m - you must spend more money on Yoshida than on any of them.” (FWIW, I bumped each up by $2m/yr from what they signed assuming the deals would need to have been beaten, at minimum.)
Or - you can’t give Eovaldi the money he came back and asked for - you must give it to Duvall, Turner and Adalberto Mondessi instead.
Henry certainly might not have allowed mega deals like those given to Cole, but I find it very tough to believe he wouldn’t allow lesser dollar deals like those I mentioned in the middle tier. Especially when Bloom was allowed the money to sign Story and Yoshida.
Moving on from Bloom, I really hope Breslow doesn’t make the same decision to do nothing but exclusively dumpster dive on starting pitchers with so many warts they can only take one year deals. On the one hand, I’m cautiously optimistic he will expend more high level assets for starting pitching (he already did in trading for Fitts), but on the other it is a concern that the only deal for a starting pitcher is - one year (Giolito). So it’s of course to be determined…
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