Complete blame to Bloom for trading VAZ, while the SOX were still in the PO hunt. I don't blame Bloom for not trading JD; no team wanted him bad enough.
Bloom is part of the problem with help from JH, but he can't be blamed for lack of production from two of his highest paid offensive players, and the invisibility of Devers for quite a while. He also can't be blamed for Story on the IL.
'Fantastic' is a liitle too much. Fantastic would describe going 9 and giving up 1 run or less. Words have to retain their meaning. The word 'great' has been abused so much that it's lost all meaning.