COMMENTARY
The symbolism of the Red Sox cutting ties with chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom in the midst of the deadest series with the Yankees in decades should not be lost on anyone.
Nor should this: The chances the next great Red Sox team has Bloom’s architectural fingerprints all over it are pretty high. Even his biggest detractors should tell you that.
This is the nature of team building, of course, and not exclusive to the latest man to be a former Red Sox baseball boss. Dan Duquette got plenty of flowers in the celebrations of 2004.