The Red Sox once sought out the first ultra provocateur of advanced metrics as applied to senior baseball management in Billy Beane. Beane has never captured a World Series title but his method is now embraced and accepted with the burgeoning use of metrics as a management tool. Chaim Bloom was immersed in that philosophy while in Tampa. Will he carry it over to Boston?
Sometimes the little things give a perspective on how the big things are approached. The Red Sox recently passed on Travis Shaw coming off a brutal -0.