Chaim Bloom has, officially, been on the job for tw0 weeks as the Red Sox' new chief baseball officer.
In that time, he's gotten acclimated to his new city and workplace, introduced himself to scores of new co-workers, reached out to Red Sox players past and present and prepared for the big task at hand: making the franchise competitive again following a hollow 2019 season that saw the Sox drop off 24 games in the win column and tumble into irrelevancy by mid-season.
On Monday, that work began in earnest, with the kickoff of the GM Meetings in Scottsdale. There, Bloom will begin laying the groundwork for a busy winter. He must, at once, address the failures of the starting rotation, add to the bullpen, fill-in holes on the right side of the infield, and not incidentally, determine how to best bring the Red Sox payroll under control again.
The latter will also involve figuring out whether the future involves the club's best player, Mookie Betts.
It's a challenging to-do list.
But before Bloom embarks on what figures to be one of the busiest and turbulent offseasons in recent memory, it's worth examining how it was he arrived here.
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