Chaim Bloom calling the Red Sox “underdogs” when explaining his approach to the trade deadline seemed to garner as much, if not more, criticism than his relative trade inactivity.
In an interview with NESN’s Tom Caron on the “TC & Company Podcast,” Bloom said he was “a little” surprised by the blowback to his comment, which referred to the team’s playoff odds as they were 1.5 games back of a playoff spot prior to Tuesday’s deadline.
“I didn’t think I was making news,” Bloom said. “Like I said, we’re not in a playoff spot.”
As Bloom acknowledged that the Red Sox will have to outpace the Toronto Blue Jays the rest of the way (they’re three games back of them for the final playoff spot in the American League entering the second game of their three-game set on Saturday), he fired back at some of those who criticized him.