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If you want to talk about human element, it sounds like Vazquez wasn't even given a courtesy call to inform him he was being traded. He only found out about it when the press questioned him. Awkward! What a douche way to handle it by Chaim Bloom. https://www.si.com/mlb/2022/08/02/christian-vazquez-on-red-sox-trading-him-to-astros-its-a-business

I'm not surprised. Bloom didn't draft Groome. Groome was taken in the 1st round of the 2016 draft by the prior regime, Bloom took over in 2019. So he's not a Bloom 'protege'. I wouldn't be surprised if Bloom shuffles all the 'deck chairs' on the Titanic until every single players has been handpicked or brought in by him directly. Seems to have that kind of ego. The question is how long will the Red Sox suffer in the basement until ownership has had enough of Bloom's antics? Keep in mind that Devers is a homegrown player but arrived BEFORE Bloom, starting his Red Sox career in 2017, same is also true of Bogaerts who started with the Red Sox at the tender age of 20 in 2013. So I wouldn't be surprised if Bloom shipped them both off as soon as he finds it convenient.

Wow if Bloom is dictating lineups and where Cora can play his guys, he really needs to get the hell out of the kitchen and let the manager do his job!

Seriously Bogaerts and Devers are core players going forward. But Bloom seems intent doing things 'his way' and losing the trust of the players. We'll just see how long ownership will put up with Bloom. It will not end well if we stay in the cellar and keep playing the way we have been. 28 runs given up is an EMBARRASSMENT! Last place in the AL East, probably not what ownership had in mind when they first hired 'the genius' Chaim Bloom.

Can you blame them for losing confidence in this GM? Bloom has shown ZERO LOYALTY to homegrown talent and he consistently trades away good players for BAD ones. See the recent JBJ blunder. And Bloom finally DFA'd JBJ after bringing in 34 year old outfielder Tommy Pham. Think about it, an aging 34 year old OFer who barely hits .700 OPS is an UPGRADE over JBJ! Oh and you remember that Hunter Renfroe guy? He's chilling with 19 HRs and .806 OPS for Milwaukee! To add insult to injury he now trades away a well respected long time Red Sox in Vazquez and replaces him with a catcher who's barely hitting .225 with a .546 OPS this year and whose claim to 'FAME' is getting arrested for Public WANKING!! *SMH* Bloom has lost the clubhouse, we can only hope this will hasten his departure from 'leading' this club straight to the basement of the AL East!

JBJ one of Bloom's worst BLUNDER trades has now been kicked off the roster! Good riddance!

Nobody can dispute that the Red Sox are in last place now. This is a situation of Bloom's own inept creation. My question for you - what report indicated the 'owner mandate' that Bloom reduce payroll to 108m? Because I've heard no such report. And if that mandate is actually true, paying Story 140m over 6 years makes even less sense now.

You just love making a fool of yourself don't you? Nobody said the Red Sox would win a championship with Drury. But a move that actually IMPROVED the big league roster would have given us some hope that Bloom actually had half a CLUE on how to be a competent GM. Obviously such ideas eluded him! Trading Good players for almost ZERO value, that's his real specialty. Such as giving away our starting catcher, Christian Vazquez for a bag of chips and a couple of prospects. Or how about trading for a catcher in Reese McGuire with an OPS of .546 and whose only claim to fame is getting arrested for PUBLIC WANKING!! BRAVO Bloom! We should all join you in your effusive praise for Bloom's buffoonery!

If Bloom had made a trade for Drury, there might actually be some optimism for the Red Sox around here. PS All it cost the Padres was Acosta, a SS prospect who isn't even in Baseball Prospectus top 100. Instead his 'best' move is probably obtaining Hosmer, whom San Diego was desperate to get rid of, to marginally improve our pathetic 1B position. But for what little good that move made, Bloom counteracts by dealing away our starting catcher Christian Vazquez for prospects and a bag of chips. Yup 'genius' at work here folks, all the critics of Chaim Bloom just need to be quiet and watch the Red Sox continue to sink in the cellar of the AL East!!

LOL you can talk down Vazquez all you want. He is still leagues better than Reese "Public Wanker" McGuire. And the reason the Red Sox are heading rapidly in the wrong direction is largely in part to multiple FAIL moves likes this by the 'genius' Chaim Bloom.

LOL, saying Reese Mcguire is an actual MLB catcher is like saying JBJ is an actual MLB outfielder. It means nothing. Let's look at the actual facts? Reese Mcguire: BA .225, OBP .261, SLG .285, OPS .546. Christian Vazquez: BA .282, OBP .327, SLG .432, OPS .759 By every offensive metric possible, Mcguire is a HUGE DOWNGRADE compared to Vazquez. That's not including the fact that Vazquez was a highly respected and valued teammate and was highly familiar with our pitching staff and how to handle them. Meanwhile the highlights of McGuire are that he was caught and arrested for public masturbation in 2020. WTF are you smoking Chaim Bloom? The baseball 'genius' has struck OUT yet again! What a disastrous deadline move!

Lol what a Strawman argument. Name a single post where I ever said I wanted the likes of Devers, Bogey, or Betts to be traded away. You can't find one cos I never did. The problem here is that Bloom subtracted a solid core starter at an important position, catcher, and the big league club got worse in the process because all we got back were prospects. BTW Devers, Bogaerts, Betts were homegrown Red Sox prospects. Bloom has already traded away Betts and is rumored to want to get rid of Bogaerts and Devers in the future. He doesn't give a damn about homegrown prospects. Bloom's ego demanded that he trade away Vazquez just because of some reported criticism. And I'm hearing that Bogaerts was UNHAPPY with the Vazquez trade as well. article: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10044205-red-sox-ss-xander-bogaerts-expresses-skepticism-over-christian-vazquez-trade So Bloom's MO is to trade away core homegrown players and piss off current players on the team to satisfy his own ego? OK, chief. 'Genius' moves by Bloom yet again!!

I've got 140 million reasons. You don't pay that kind of money for just a good defensive infielder. Those are a dime a dozen. You pay that kind of money for a premium bat that has the good defense included. Bloom's evaluation as typical was off. He overpaid for an aging infielder who can't hit outside of Coors field. Has the man never heard of Park Factors?! *SMH* But of course some fans are so EAGER to find excuses for the 'baseball genius'.

Typical Red Sox goto move of recent years. Let's just waste money. Why am I not surprised. Well we have no choice but to wait and see. At least Hosmer can't hit worse than our current cast of inept outcasts, right? It would be just our luck if Hosmer chooses to regress the instant he dons a Red Sox uniform. A .720 OPS is not impressive for a 1st baseman, but compared to Bobby 'where's the ball' Dalbec, it would be serviceable in comparison.

Typical strawman deflection. Story was sucking without the broken wrist. The injury just adds to the misery of the move. Which was an opportunity cost FAILURE to improve the outfield cos we dropped big bucks and OVERPAID for a .710 OPS 2nd baseman who can't hit outside Coors field.

Why would I need to? It's over. We gave up a 30 home run bat and received a .578 OPS bat in return. JBJ absolutely blow chunks. FACT. If you really need an update let's look right now: Hunter Renfroe is chilling with an .816 OPS and 19 homeruns for the Brewers. Gee why can't we get those kinds of players, OH cos Bloom TRADES them AWAY! Suzuki is currently batting a .766 OPS with 8 homeruns which tops ALL Red Sox outfielders. But the money is already sunk into Trevor Story who BROKE his wrist and is out for 1 month. Keep in mind we paid 6/140m dollars for a 2nd baseman who has batted .710 OPS and has been EXPOSED outside of Coors field. Happy? I'm sure not. Bloom's continued FAIL moves just keep making our Red Sox Worse. The Trade Deadline has been a disappointment.

It's a case of too little too late. Hosmer is better than Dalbec, but only because Dalbec is SO BAD. Meanwhile adding a 34 yo outfielder who barely hits .700 OPS 'improves' a pathetic OF. Maybe we can get JBJ's .578 OPS bat out of the lineup now and again. OOF. Red Sox fans are being delusional if they feel the Yankees didn't just have a MUCH BETTER trade deadline than the Red Sox. And all this is before dumping our starting catcher for a bag of chips and a couple of minor league prospects. But I'm sure there will be posters PRAISING Bloom's 'forward thinking' as another 'genius' move!

It's a small victory to celebrate that Benitendi is off to a bad start with the Yankees. A short lived victory, I doubt he stays below his career .782 OPS for very long. But that's nothing compared to the pile of dog crap Bloom has served on a platter to the Red Sox faithful. Poopoo platter anyone? Oh we have no choice but to dine on this crap cos that's what our current GM has served up. We didn't get better, we probably got slightly worse. But hey we have a couple more prospects in the minors now! Hail Chaim Bloom! What a baseball "genius"!! *smh*

Chaim Bloom trades for a 34 year old outfield who averaged sub .700 OPS over the past 3 seasons in Tommy Pham? It's not puzzling anymore, it's his method of operation. Let's give up good players and get BAD players. Job done!! Hey guys, we got another body we can throw into the outfield who is likely to hit under .700 OPS! Huzzah, that's better than JBJ's .578 OPS. See Bloom realizes that the key is to lower expectations so much that even a BAD player improves your situation! That was the key to the Hosmer trade. Dalbec looks so BAD that Hosmer is an improvement even though he's clearly just a salary dump for San Diego.

Vazquez got traded from a bad team with a bad GM to a good team with a good GM? Agreed. Astros are in 1st place in the AL West and have been tops or near the tops in that division for years. Bloom gets FLEECED yet again!

Bloom is in love with prospects. That was his mentality as SVP with the Rays. Unfortunately for fans of the big league club, that doesn't help us a whole lot now. I'm not a fan of this move either. In the short term the Red Sox get worse. And they were already in the basement. The carrot that Bloom is hanging is - give me 2 more years, it'll get better, I promise! We got prospects!!

I'm sure he'll make those minor league fans very happy, all 9000 of them. But how does this help the big league club? It doesn't.

Don't like this move. You trade your starting catcher and get back prospects who might not play until 2-3 years down the road? Bloom dumping the baby out with the bathwater!! Are we supposed to cheer for this? How? Our hitting at the catcher position gets worse now right? And we make up for that by trading for Hosmer? Meh.

Hosmer is a salary dump. He has an opt out. Reportedly Padres eat at least half of Hosmer's salary as well. Ok. This was a no brainer since Dalbec has been a net negative on the field, he has REGRESSED every single season since his first. Am I supposed to be impressed?

Trade Deadline Grades: Yankees A Orioles A- Blue Jays B- Rays C+ Red Sox D Article: https://theathletic.com/3471426/2022/08/03/mlb-trade-deadline-grades/ Need I say more?