LOL. Others say I loved the guy and was his biggest defender.
Bloom made some big mistakes. Most of his biggest moves back-fired. Look at the deals for over $10M:
Devers- TBD
Story- injuries derailed hopes, little left to be determined
Yoshida- One year meh, 2nd year and beyond TBD
Jansen- great
Barnes- oops
Martin- great for 1 of 2 yrs (the wrong year)
Kike I- good for one year (the right one)
Richards
Kluber
Kike II
He did very well with under $10M deals and rebuilding the farm and foundation, and frankly by not trading away DD's best prospects. The current foundation has a lot to do with Bloom (and DD,) mostly because Bloom focused more on the longterm than the here and now. Well, the longterm is now the here and now, mostly because Bloom set it up this way. I thank him for that, but he failed to produce winning or exciting teams, along the way. He had a big enough budget to do so, and he did not.
I don't hate the guy, at all. He did some good things. I don't hate DD, Ben or Theo, either.