OK, let's run through this
- Devers
- Great player...extended under the Bloom FO
- Betts
- Great player...who ownership mandated a trade for and while the return wasn't ideal, two of the better 2023 Red Sox were in that trade
- Bogaerts
- Great player...who got an obscene contract from SD no sane team matches
- Sale
- An absolute albatross of a contract who constricted the team for the entirety of the Bloom FO
- Eovaldi
- A great Dombrowski trade and someone who provide real value for Boston and left in FA...because he assumed he'd get paid better than Boston offered and didn't.
- Eduardo Rodriguez
- A very effective player who left in FA for a deal he absolutely didn't earn on in 2022 and has been better in 2023. I don't think any Sox fan wanted to give him what the Tigers did
- Benintendi
- A good player who has lost any semblance of power hitting he had who signed a deal no Red Sox fan would want him to sign
- Vazquez
- A good player who is a replacement level guy since he left who the Sox got a couple good prospects for (earning 10M in Minnesota)
It was an 84 win team with horrendous contracts, no farm to back it up, and an ownership mandate to cut costs. He's leaving it an 84 win team with far fewer terrible contracts (the one he was stuck with and arguably Story), a much better farm system, in a position to acquire and compete.
And he was here for three season and a COVID trunacted fourth year, pipelines don't often deliver til later than that and the pipeline looks good now.