The St. Louis Cardinals hired former Boston Red Sox general manager Chaim Bloom as an advisor Monday, bulking up their front office after the team's worst season in nearly 30 years.
Bloom, 40, was fired by Boston in September after the Red Sox were nearing their third last-place finish in four years. In the other season, 2021, Boston advanced to the American League Championship Series.
During his five seasons with the Red Sox, the team went 351-340 and turned around a moribund farm system Bloom inherited. But with fierce competition in the AL East, Red Sox ownership -- which has pared payroll in recent years -- pivoted from Bloom and hired Craig Breslow as the new chief baseball officer.