As the chief baseball officer in Boston, Chaim Bloom got a reputation as being hesitant, indecisive, and lacking confidence in closing a trade.
After the Red Sox sacked Bloom late in the 2023 season, that criticism stuck to him after he left Fenway Park.
I have felt all along that Bloom – as a first-time leader of a baseball operation – probably wasn’t fully prepared for the chaos and toxic shock of working for a volatile and meddling team owner and a bunch of front-office people hired by the previous regime. (So much for loyalty.)