All we heard from the Red Sox towards the end of the 2019 season going into this offseason was about budget. Yes, there was the need to replace Dave Dombrowski and the whispers surrounding J.D. Martinez and Mookie Betts, but the albatross was always the salary. Boston went and hired a guy who can work wonders with a small budget in Chaim Bloom, and that’s what he’ll need to do.
When the Red Sox came out and said that they wanted to get below the $208M CBT threshold for the 2020 season, I had to take a step back.