Playing nine innings while hoping you realize there’s a better chance of the Red Sox hiring an actual gorilla as president of baseball operations than there is of Theo Epstein returning …
1. I’m sure this is no consolation to him in his first full day as the former chief baseball officer for the Boston Red Sox, but Chaim Bloom’s tenure will look better in retrospect than it ever did when he had the job.
Now, it’s a couple of steps too far to suggest he left the Red Sox demonstrably better than he found them, if only because Mookie Betts, who is on a very short list of the most charismatic and complete players ever to wear a Red Sox uniform, was still working his magic for the franchise when Bloom arrived.