Red Sox: Chaim Bloom a home run hire as chief baseball officer
The Boston Red Sox are reportedly hiring Tampa Bay Rays executive Chaim Bloom to run their baseball operations department, so here’s why he was the best hire possible.
Chaim Bloom might not be a household name to Boston Red Sox fans but he will be in the very near future.
Bloom was a huge part of constructing a Rays team that had the lowest opening-day payroll in the league. Yet through a couple of trades and other moves, it was enough to make the postseason, and not just win the Wild Card game over the Oakland A’s but to stretch the Houston Astros to the maximum of five games in the ALDS.
With that said, that is just why he is a home run hire for the Boston Red Sox.
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Dave Dombrowski was fired before the season ended, partly because ownership believed that Dombrowski was not going to be able to construct a team without throwing money at free agents.
Bloom has shown his ability to do the exact opposite, as the Tampa Bay Rays did not have the money to spend like all of the big market teams do, which could have been a significant hurdle to some executives, but not Chaim Bloom.
Bloom was not set back by the lack of payroll flexibility because he has had experience in scouting developing players.
Bloom interned with the Tampa Bay Rays after graduating from Yale and was hired a year later. He played a big role in creating a template for player development called “The Rays Way”.
Some players that have benefitted from it are recent Bloom draftees including David Price, Blake Snell, and Alex Cobb.
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A big factor as to why Bloom fits in perfectly to what the Red Sox are trying to do because ownership has made it known they are making it a priority of lowering the payroll to get under the luxury tax and there is not a better choice to achieve that goal than Chaim Bloom.