It was always inevitable that a brilliant baseball mind like Chaim Bloom was going to leave Tampa Bay eventually. In a crowded front office filled with equally smart people and an ever-widening field of job opportunities in other franchises, someone was bound to figure out that Bloom was an ideal candidate to take over operations of their team.
After interviews with a couple teams over the past two years, the team that figured it out just happened to be AL East rivals the Boston Red Sox.
Bloom, whose title with the Rays was vice president of baseball operations won’t be a general manager for the Red Sox, but rather a loftier title, that of Chief Baseball Officer.