Of course Carrabis is a Sox mouthpiece. But that doesn't mean what he's putting out there isn't the rationale as to why Bloom was let go.
Can we please not call Story a win? He was cheap cause he was broken. No one else bought because they cared about winning up front. Hopefully he’ll be good going forward (love him on the diamond) but hoping to get your value on the back 9 of a contract is a rough spot.
Is it me, or have we been hearing about these two as GM candidates since, like, 2010?
Because with few exceptions I think his moves have been a disaster, and he was given a longer leash than necessary because of a flukish 2021.
Antonetti is currently president of baseball ops for Cleveland, so it wouldn't be a promotion for him to make the lateral move to the Red Sox. Better team to be with?
...to cover that the Sox had a spending cap that handcuffed a GM and cut him off into a developmental plan because they don't want to hear about MVP Mookie Betts in LA.
Good point, this article did credit Bloom explicitly…as does our interviewee above. My recollection of the interview was it was one of many areas of investment Henry had made in the team as part of the new ‘regime’ he expected the GM to implement. Either way, I’m quite optimistic that this aspect of the organization is here to stay.
I mean, I wasn't, but am optimistic about a guy who's just 30, approaching 30 bWAR, and just healed from his one major injury.
Whoa, hold on now:
Not for nothing, but it strikes me that your reply is just as "biased" as Carrabis's. I mean "a rudderless, impulsive ownership base" is nothing but your opinion, and "they don't want to hear about MVP Mookie Betts in LA" is pure speculation.
He also traded a franchise cornerstone beloved perhaps to the same extent that Mookie was, did so during the season, in a move that received mixed reviews at the time and it worked.
Thank you. Minimizing Theo's construction of those teams made me feel like I was taking crazy pills.
I’m similarly optimistic that it works out, and the D shows that it’s not physical…he just needs reps to get the bat going. My point is that referring to his signing now as a win, or showing a differentiated skill, is misguided (and my apologies that I misunderstood you to be saying that). Bloom exploited the fact that he didn’t really care about winning in the first 1-2 years of the contract, and could get the AAV by paying for the repair year.
"Listen, pal. I may be in Heaven having lunch and wondering what to do with Wilie McGee, but Trot Nixon was mine!"
(Edit: Fair enough, I am unsure to how much his role was but fair on the date)
I don't either, but no one is taking my information as reporting, they are taking Carrabis.. I literally starting my sentence with "I think" - it's really effing clear it's my opinion and I'm not a beat reporter. My whole point was to be cautious with media reporting because the people who have sources within the team will be getting info with that skew, which has happened with every firing that ever happens in Boston media.
The pitchers all being absolutely awful their 3rd time through the rotation is why they didn't go deeper into games.
It's kind of darkly funny that he just hit a 3-run bomb and we got an amazing start out of Houck, two guys whose last 6 weeks maybe got Bloom fired. In general I expect the next guy to live off Bloom's work, including Story on a reasonable deal. We'll see I guess.
Not very solid reasoning. Winning a championship does not excuse all mistakes. For example, if Dombrowski were still here and the Red Sox hadn't won more than 70 games in a season since 2020, people would be calling for his head.
The way Houck struggled in the 5th today I think that might have been the end for him if it wasn't a DH today. But who knows? Maybe he learned something about himself. (or whatever psychobabular platitude you prefer here).
And then the Duke will say “Slow down on the suds, Chaim. Casas and Bello were signed before you got there”
Well, Sale and Price did result in the team's hoisting a flag that is still flying. And Sale's extension led to a payroll crunch and at least indirectly led to Dombrowski's firing.
Except I don't think Henry was amused that last season's deadline left the team above the tax threshold leading into an offseason in which they said goodbye to a couple of key free agents. The trade deadline is one of the key responsibilities of a GM, so subsequent failures are not "overblown" by any means.
This is where I am on Bloom. I wasn't calling for his head, but I can't get worked up about his firing either. Even if we were to assume that 2023 was a bridge year, the roster construction was suspect from the start. Bloom's plan to rely on reclamation projects and people playing out of position made sense if the goal were to try to hover around .500 and sell everything not nailed down at the deadline. But Bloom chose inertia, for reasons that are a mystery.
As well as "the only reason you have Mayer is because you finished in last place your first year".
Most teams have a hit rate that would get every NFL GM fired, so it's hard to argue with their overall success in the draft. It's just baseball. But the development piece is massive, and it's not hard to imagine they fired Dombro for doing too little there. But now that Bloom seems to have rebuilt that... it's built now and might be OK without Bloom going forward. As long as the next guy stays on top of that.
In an utterly meaningless 60-game season, which is one of the best things to happen to the Sox of late. If you need to bottom out to draft the very top guys, that was incredible timing.
I think this is something of a straw man.
I don't think it's a dumb question or thought to be honest and I (obvously) like Bloom. My gut says it's a combination of devleoped pitchers struggling the third time through the lineup (Crawford mostly but also Bello) and not wanting to overwork more fragile veterans to avoid a breakdown (Paxton, Sale) - but that kind of load on the bullpen on a regular basis really cascades and Bloom's choice in acquiring these particular flaws or being forced to use them can be pinned to a personnel decision. But I can see disagreement here, but that was one of my bigger personal complaints about his roster construction. I could be full of ish though.
That has absolutely nothing to do with the statement that you made or the question that I asked.
There are multiple people who have argued that ownership didn’t care whether the teams are bad. Take a look in the “Who goes first?” Thread.
Well, at some point people will probably stop wasting their energy blaming Bloom for all the world's ills.
