{"id":450492,"date":"2025-11-26T16:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T16:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/450492\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T16:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T16:31:12","slug":"chaim-bloom-gets-real-on-making-trade-with-red-sox-a-little-strange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/450492\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaim Bloom Gets Real On Making Trade With Red Sox &#8212; &#8216;A Little Strange&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/11\/red-sox-send-message-on-next-move-after-sonny-gray-trade\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Red Sox picked up Sonny Gray<\/a> in a trade with the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday afternoon, giving them another top-tier pitcher to add to their starting rotation. Making this deal a bit more interesting for the Sox is that they had to hammer it out with their old friend, <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/11\/chaim-bloom-opens-up-on-cardinals-return-in-sonny-gray-red-sox-trade\/amp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chaim Bloom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bloom was Craig Breslow\u2019s predecessor as Boston\u2019s president of baseball operations, as he spent four seasons with the team before he got fired at the end of the 2023 campaign. Now, Bloom is with St. Louis, and one of his first big moves of the offseason involved swinging a deal with his former squad.<\/p>\n<p>Considering how Bloom\u2019s tenure with the Sox ended, it was fair to wonder if there was bad blood between the two sides that could potentially prevent deals from being made this offseason. Instead, Bloom has maintained that he still is fond of the organization and that his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/redsox\/2025\/11\/why-big-red-sox-trade-was-a-little-strange-for-familiar-face-on-other-side-of-sonny-gray-talks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">history with the club<\/a> had no bearing on the Gray trade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a little strange, obviously, but at the end of the day, that doesn\u2019t really impact things,\u201d Bloom said, per Chris Cotillo of MassLive. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to do the best we can for our club no matter who it\u2019s with. <\/p>\n<p>If we accomplish our objectives, then it doesn\u2019t matter. It shouldn\u2019t matter where I worked last or anything other than what\u2019s best for the St. Louis Cardinals. I know they\u2019re trying to accomplish something themselves, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, baseball is a business, and nobody understands that better than Bloom. He knows his primary objective now is helping improve the Cardinals, and if that involves making a trade with the Red Sox, then so be it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>One big move may have been made, but it feels like Boston is only just getting started when it comes to its offseason work. As a result, the Sox are a team worth monitoring as the offseason unfolds, because more big moves could be on the horizon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Red Sox picked up Sonny Gray in a trade with the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,10149,4,89,2543],"class_list":{"0":"post-450492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-red-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-red-sox","11":"tag-bostonredsox","12":"tag-chaim-bloom","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-red-sox","15":"tag-redsox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115616959201023495","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}