Red Sox chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom has had his hands full since being hired by the team nearly three weeks ago. Bloom, who previously served as the senior vice president of baseball operations for the Tampa Bay Rays, was hired after the Sox fired Dave Dombroski in September.
Now he must sort out the tasks left to him. That includes cutting the team’s payroll by about 15 percent to get it under the luxury-tax threshold of $208 million, addressing roster spot needs, and building relationships with players to meet their demands as well.