He executed some transactions, but didn't make any significant acquisitions. What were the 2022 WAR's of the guys he acquired?
Maybe the word dithering is the wrong one. But whatever the right word is, it's not complimentary.
I blame Henry for trading Betts and giving up on any chance to retain him in the process.
We can blame Bloom for the return, but there's no way it was his idea. In fact the story has now come out that DD was in talks to trade Betts at the 2019 deadline.
After that game that Verdugo was late and got benched, Cora said "today we took a step backward as a team" or something like that. When you draw that much attention to an incident, it's a pretty bad sign.
At the '22 deadline Bloom made tiny lateral movements. The results were lousy. It was virtually the same as doing nothing.
He may have gotten something in the Vaz trade, though.
Just to clarify - Bloom did not "go over" at the 22 deadline, the problem for many is that he "stayed over" when he had the chance to "get under" by trading Bogaerts/JD/Nate etc.