Newly hired Red Sox Chief Baseball Officer, Chaim Bloom, is presently attending the MLB GM meetings, which are currently underway in Phoenix, Arizona. Executives from every Major League team will be on hand, as well as representatives for many of the sport’s top free agents.
Historically not many major trades or signings will occur during this annual meet-and-greet. Rather all of the aforementioned parties will essentially get a sense of the types of markets that might potentially develop for the transactions they will try to pursue ahead of next month’s Winter Meetings.
For Boston’s new top executive, the most prominent task on his agenda will be to finally have a resolution on Mookie Betts‘ future with the club.