What? You’re misreading what they’re saying….From Fangraphs
"Imagine trading Mookie Betts. Chaim Bloom must have done that, must have considered all of the angles and potential outcomes of such a move, including the possibility that he would be saddled with it as his legacy — then sold principal owner John Henry on a vision of the Red Sox without the superstar right fielder in order to be hired as the team’s chief baseball officer in October 2019."
They've got this entirely backwards. The ownership didn't want to move forward with Dombrowski's high-spending ways, so they fired him. They then went out and hand-picked a guy who would rebuild the team through the farm system (and Bloom was an ideal fit). How on earth Fangraphs got the impression that it was the other way around is beyond me. The story they tell is absolutely ludicrous.
If Henry mandated Betts to get traded, then whoever they hired had to sell Henry on a vision without Betts…which is exactly what FanGraphs is saying. You’re trying too hard to be aggrieved on Blooms behald