St. Louis Cardinals President of Baseball Operations Chaim Bloom appears to have “more of a fan’s temperament on the inside than his public comments have shown to this point,” according to Lynn Worthy of the ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. It has become “all too easy to view most baseball executives as almost robotic” because of how they “run organizations” and the “manner in which they discuss the game.” There have been “several times” when Bloom has seemed to “fit into that category during his first few months at the helm.” But Bloom “seems to genuinely understand the fan’s plight.” Bloom said, “Where I do think we have a really, really intelligent fan base that can understand what we’re doing and understand the reasons for it and that there are some things with this, as there are with every baseball season, that unfold over time.” In an “acknowledgment of emotion,” it may seem a “small thing to get excited about, but we as the outside observers, fans and followers don’t get a lot of emotion from the folks running clubs.” Worthy: “We get probability and percentages. We get talk of projection and potential. … At least we now have a sign that the guy in charge of the Cardinals’ long-term project isn’t solely viewing this as a math equation that must be solved.” Bloom added, “I fully expect that we’re going to hear it when things aren’t going well because people care” (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, 3/29).
