The Red Sox news is and will be centered on payroll considerations as they attempt to shed payroll and be under the payroll driver known as the luxury tax. The first step in the process had nothing to do with the movement of labor (player) but a change in executive strategy with the hiring of Chaim Bloom to orchestrate just how the team will proceed with a monetary diet.
Bloom honed his baseball skills within the Tampa Bay organization working his way up the corporate ladder until the Red Sox beckoned. Tampa invariably was located in the lower reaches of team payroll during Bloom’s tenure with the organization.