Towards the close of 2022, as Red Sox fans were still reeling from the loss of Xander Bogaerts and, at that point, coping with the uncertainty surrounding Rafael Devers’s future, Chaim Bloom appeared on Rob Bradford’s podcast and made a curious statement:
“I thought last year we had more talent in the room than we did in 2021; I think this year we’re going to have more talent in the room than we did in 2021,” said the embattled Bloom. In light of the fact that the Red Sox had just finished in last place in the AL East and let their most productive player walk without replacing him, the statement raised some questions, questions like: “What room is Bloom actually talking about ?