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Red Sox may have lost Billy Beane but got Chaim Bloom

The Red Sox once sought out the first ultra provocateur of advanced metrics as applied to senior baseball management in Billy Beane. Beane has never captured a World Series title but his method is now embraced and accepted with the burgeoning use of metrics as a management tool. Chaim Bloom was immersed in that philosophy while in Tampa. Will he carry it over to Boston?

Sometimes the little things give a perspective on how the big things are approached. The Red Sox recently passed on Travis Shaw coming off a brutal -0.