Xander Bogaerts’s decision to leave Boston for San Diego late Wednesday evening into early Thursday morning was a surprise to many. It wasn’t just because he was actually leaving the Red Sox, but there were also several rumors indicating that a deal for him to remain was imminent.
But Red Sox chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom knew that the club’s longest-tenured player was already gone before then.
“We had a good sense of where it was headed for some time before the deal was actually done,” Bloom told MassLive’s Chris Cotillo on Friday. “I know what was reported, but that was definitely not what our impression was throughout the day and even the day before.