Chaim Bloom is a bit of a devise figure in Boston Red Sox lore. While he was the architect behind the team’s trade of Mookie Betts and left the team for dead in 2022, he also helped build a team that made it to the 2021 American League Championship Series and helped make some big acquisitions that have helped the Red Sox this year.
One of those acquisitions was shortstop Trevor Story, who is finally looking like a superstar after enduring three up-and-down seasons to the start of his Boston tenure. As a reminder to the uninitiated, Bloom signed Story to a six-year, $140 million contract ahead of the 2022 season in the hopes that he’d hold down shortstop for the Red Sox after six productive seasons with the Colorado Rockies.