Time for Boston Red Sox to spend like a big market powerhouse
The Boston Red Sox have to either put up or fail again
The onus is on the Boston Red Sox to either act like the big market team they are or hopefully sell the team to someone who will. Bottom-feeding again isn’t going to get the job done.
This offseason moves will talk to Red Sox Nation in a loud and distinct voice. It will either say, we’ll continue to lowball the team’s Chief Baseball Officer Chaim Bloom’s budget and fail again, or, we’ll revert to the winning ways of a big market team that spends big to be big.
The approach will be evident soon. If only bottom-of-barrel or reclamation project free agents are mined hoping to strike gold, they are likely to be extremely disappointed.
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Occasionally great moves are made that work out perfectly. The signing of Hunter Renfroe and the trade for Kyle Schwarber were two of those moves along with the signing Kike Hernandez.
Unfortunately, Bloom negated two of his brilliant 2021 moves by trading Renfroe for Jackie Bradley Jr. and not re-signing Schwarber to an extension. He head-scratchingly undid his best work and paid a heavy price, another last-place finish after the magical 2021 rush to the ALCS.
This offseason, Bloom is under the microscope. Another last-place finish in totally reversing Dombrowski’s outstanding record will almost certainly mark his last at the helm of the team.
The absentee owners will have to scapegoat someone even though they ostensibly have turned down the spigot of free agent funding to a trickle. If this continues, Bloom will likely pay the price.