Red Sox chief of baseball operations Chaim Bloom is operating as expected

The Boston Red Sox early days of the Chaim Bloom administration give an insight into just what to expect. The next few months should be bargain hunting for Bloom.

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…