Business is beginning to pick up for the Red Sox as the MLB GM Meetings have begun ahead of next month’s Winter Meetings. It’s during these times that Chaim Bloom will get his first crack as Chief Baseball Officer with the rest of the league’s front offices. We will most likely see the vision he has for the 2020 squad take shape.
One thing we know for sure is that he and the rest of the front office team in Boston want to get the salary as close to or below the $208M threshold. If they achieve this goal then they’ll effectively reset the penalty marker, and have the ability to spend big next year with the smallest of the penalties being a threat.