No matter what’s happening in the world, you can still log on to Twitter at pretty much any given time see Red Sox fans arguing over Chaim Bloom’s job performance. When the Sox win, the stans are out in full force. When they lose, as they have done many times recently, the haters rejoice. It’s exhausting. It’s also pointless. Bloom is doing the job he was hired to do: Make the Red Sox competitive on a year-to-year basis without spending a ton of money. But the reckoning is coming.
Right now, the Sox are sixth in payroll, but they have legacy contracts for J.