Red Sox Reportedly Interested In Replacing Chaim Bloom With Top Exec

Boston has some decisions to make before the offseason kicks off

Scott Neville | Sep 4, 2023

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The Boston Red Sox are on pace to miss the postseason by a hefty margin for the second season in a row -- largely due to roster holes that everyone was well aware of entering the 2023 campaign.

For that reason, Red Sox chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom has been under serious scrutiny -- though anyone in his position has/will receive hate from the Boston media and fanbase.

In a market as historically successful as Boston, every losing season is followed by hot-seat rumors. Now the national media is getting involved.

"Former Milwaukee Brewers general manager David Stearns still is the heavy favorite to become the new president of baseball operations (for the New York Mets), although rumors persist that the Boston Red Sox could be in the mix," USA Today's Bob Nightengale wrote Sunday.

New York Post's Jon Heyman wrote a similar statement regarding the potential of Stearns replacing Bloom back in May.

Bloom's record has not been great but it's not fair to use wins as a metric for his success -- at least this early on. The former Tampa Bay Rays executive was brought in prior to the 2020 season to rebuild the organization using prospects and young controllable talent -- a much healthier and sustainable way to roster build versus Dave Dombrowski's wild free-agent spending and blockbuster trades.

Logically, Bloom's method takes time, and early signs would indicate that the organization is going in the right direction. Many of his top prospects are either reaching the big leagues or climbing up the final rungs of the minor leagues.

The Red Sox will enter this offseason with a reset luxury tax, a loaded farm system and the ability to make some serious additions to the roster. Bloom deserves a chance to blend the Red Sox's deep pockets with the Rays' ability to find diamonds in the rough and develop prospects at an impressive clip. He'll have that opportunity this season assuming he's not replaced.

While it has felt like Bloom will get another shot in 2024, there has been enough reporting to believe that the Red Sox are mulling over a change in leadership.

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SCOTT NEVILLE

Scott Neville covers the Boston Red Sox for Sports Illustrated's new page "Inside The Red Sox." Before starting "Inside The Red Sox", Neville attended Merrimack College, where he earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Communication and Media with a minor in Marketing. Neville spent all four years with Merrimack's radio station WMCK, where he grew as a radio/podcast host and producer. His propensity for being in front of a microphone eventually expanded to film, where he produced multiple short films alongside his then-roommate and current co-worker Stephen Mottram. On a journey that began as a way to receive easy credits via film classes, he received a call from "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" star Charlie Day. Day advised him to make a feature-length film, which he completed his senior year. While writing the film, Neville completed an internship for United Way as part of their NFL Partnership Program. Neville ran the blog for a team of interns and hosted an internet show called "United Way's NFL Partnership Series" where he interviewed NFL alumni. After college Neville wrote for SB Nation's "Over The Monster," a Red Sox sister site of the flagship brand. His work would eventually lead him to a job as a content producer with NESN, where he would cover all sports. After developing as a writer with the top regional network in the world, he was given the opportunity to join the Sports Illustrated Media Group in his current endeavor as the publisher of "Inside The Red Sox." The successful launch and quick rise of "Inside The Red Sox" led to Neville joining the Baseball Essential ownership group, a national baseball site under SIMG. Follow him on Twitter: @ScottNeville46 Email: nevilles@merrimack.edu