It’s Time For Chaim Bloom To Embrace Rentals

Recently, Chaim Bloom was asked about the team’s intentions at the trade deadline and he gave a longer answer, but part of that answer was, “And so really our North Star is just continuing to advance the ball there. Continuing to build our core. Those are going to be the most attractive opportunities for us.” In other words Bloom is not targeting rental players, but rather players that have multiple years of control and can be part of the team’s young core moving forward.

On its face this makes sense. Who wouldn’t want to build their young core with more controllable talent? The problem with young, controllable talent is that it simply costs more to acquire and teams are reluctant to give it…