Bloom was fired because he lacked conviction. Now, maybe that’s on the owner leadership, but there is evidence justifying Blooms departure.Several people on this board swore up and down that Bloom built an amazing farm system that was set up to win now and the next several centuries. And that ownership was absolutely begging him on bended knees to spend all the money in the world to win; the only thing holding them back was blooms absolutely infallible track record of valuation and making sure that they could only spend money on surefire winners like Corey Kluber. When I said that FSG seemed to have other priorities, I was told definitively that they have 20 years of success and that means their priorities could not have possibly changed. Given what I was told, how could this report be true?
Oh well. Full throttle!
He did massively clean up the payroll and build a very nice farm, albeit with pitching deficiencies.
The 2022 trade deadline was a clown show. Not getting under the luxury tax by a minor amount was horrible business.
The 2023 trade deadline completely lacked any sort of direction and the team crumbled.
We identified good free agents but was married to $/value. He correctly identified Zack Eflin as a great target, but refused to outbid the Rays for 3/$40mm. If you believe in that player, offer 3/$50 and go get them even if it isn’t of “value”. The Red Sox are in a much different spot if they get Eflin.
Bloom was clever and a good talent evaluator, but he lacked aggressiveness and conviction.
We will see if Breslow is more of the same and if he is maybe you can shift majority blame on ownership, but we aren’t quite there yet.