COMMENTARY
On Monday in this space, we offered the optimist’s view of this Boylston death march of a baseball campaign. An attempt to reach into history for some hope, and a reflection that Red Sox seasons like these often either nurture the pieces for the eventual turnaround or are the catalyst for the change that changes everything.
This morning, the colder reality. We’re only maybe in midstream, and the clarity of hindsight is still on the other side of the horizon.
Chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom understood the opportunity before him with Monday’s trade deadline.