Amid the eternal chaos that is the NFL, Spring Training is opening for the Red Sox following MLB’s lengthy offseason lockout.
That means chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom’s task of improving the team on the fly heading into the season will now ramp up considerably as he tries to build a roster that can once again compete for a World Series.
But first, like Red Sox president Sam Kennedy, Bloom took a moment to express appreciation for baseball’s return while speaking with reporters at the team’s Spring Training facility in Fort Myers, Florida on Monday morning.
“I think speaking for everybody who follows the Red Sox and loves the Red Sox, it was tough emotionally, just not knowing and the prospect of not having a full season,” he admitted.