I don't consider myself to be an angry or reactionary fan, and I'll go on record as saying I was willing to be patient to see Chaim Bloom's plan come to fruition.
With that said, ownership made it pretty clear that Bloom was fired because they expect stronger results from the major league team. Currently, at best, the roster is about the same in terms of talent than it was in 2023. One could easily argue with the departure of Turner and Duvall, the roster is currently worse.
It makes absolutely no sense for the Red Sox to fire the general manager because the team didn't win enough games over the past two seasons, and then set a fairly conservative spending limit on the new general manager so that he can't improve the major league roster in any meaningful way.
Only one of two things can be true:
1. Breslow intends to spend but he's waiting out an unusually sluggish market
2. John Henry, Tom Werner, and Sam Kennedy are idiots who think that the same strategy of mostly sitting out free agent spending and waiting for deals will somehow yield different results
The fact that Jordan Montgomery, the most obvious Red Sox free agent target other than Yamamoto, is still out there gives me hope that #1 is true. But the fact that Werner and Breslow keep signaling that quality pitching of any kind is too expensive makes me worried...
With that said, ownership made it pretty clear that Bloom was fired because they expect stronger results from the major league team. Currently, at best, the roster is about the same in terms of talent than it was in 2023. One could easily argue with the departure of Turner and Duvall, the roster is currently worse.
It makes absolutely no sense for the Red Sox to fire the general manager because the team didn't win enough games over the past two seasons, and then set a fairly conservative spending limit on the new general manager so that he can't improve the major league roster in any meaningful way.
Only one of two things can be true:
1. Breslow intends to spend but he's waiting out an unusually sluggish market
2. John Henry, Tom Werner, and Sam Kennedy are idiots who think that the same strategy of mostly sitting out free agent spending and waiting for deals will somehow yield different results
The fact that Jordan Montgomery, the most obvious Red Sox free agent target other than Yamamoto, is still out there gives me hope that #1 is true. But the fact that Werner and Breslow keep signaling that quality pitching of any kind is too expensive makes me worried...