I think that the last sentence is understandable from the POV of Craig. (especially since outside of Ohtani and Yamamoto, there were not really that many "difference makers" on the SP side'Alex Speier makes it sound like Bloom was ready to spend. FSG fired him. And now Breslow is gun shy to make big moves.
View: https://twitter.com/redsoxstats/status/1745826888734462195
And given the contracts that both got (the largely differed contract for Ohtani and those that Yamamoto turned down from the NY teams which IIRC were bigger than what LA gave) seems like the chances of us singing either (even if we threw money at them) was minuscule
Edit: the Reporting about bloom in the above piece also seems at odds with the earlier reporting that the FO was not happy with how he handled the past few trade deadlines and reportedly imposed a hard cap on him as a result.. That is literally something you would not let Bloom do if you had supposedly imposed a hard cap on him (as some reported)
And both reporting cant be true, (imposing a hard cap on Bloom, and allowing him to spend big this offseason)
So which report is accurate?
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