Low? He got Ronaldo Hernandez for him!
Certainly, he is better than Sam Travis!
My point is, Bloom saw something in Perez and Springs to think maybe he'd get a gem in the rough. He wasn't totally wrong about that. He just missed by a year or two.
One could argue that had Ben gotten they 2016 seasons from HRam and Porcello in 2015, he'd have been the GM at least a year longer.
Sometimes, timing is everything.