The Boston Red Sox fired chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom on Thursday after four up-and-down seasons that included a pair of last-place finishes and a 2023 almost certain to end without a playoff berth.
Bloom, 40, joined the Red Sox following their firing general manager Dave Dombrowski in September 2019, a year after they won their fourth World Series in 15 years.
He arrived from small-market success Tampa Bay as the antithesis of the swashbuckling Dombrowski: methodical, patient and ready to rebuild a farm system while still succeeding in the major leagues.
But within months of arriving, with ownership stressing financial flexibility, Bloom traded star outfielder Mookie Betts to the Los Angeles Dodgers, a move that hung over his tenure as Boston sandwiched last-place finishes around a 2021 in which they took Houston to six games in the ALCS.