The Red Sox have already benefited greatly from hiring one Yale-bred baseball executive, and now they’ll take a chance on another.
News broke Friday that the club agreed to hire 36-year-old Chaim Bloom as their new head of baseball operations.
A 2004 graduate of Yale University, Bloom comes from the same alma mater as former Sox executive Theo Epstein, the architect behind the 2004 and 2007 World Series teams.
Here are five things to know about the Sox new chief of baseball operations.
Bloom spent 15 years with the Tampa Bay Rays.