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Chaim Bloom (Source: MLB)<\/p>\n
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As the new president of baseball operations for the St. Louis Cardinals, Chaim Bloom is running the show.<\/p>\n
Bloom has a plan. He believes the best way to describe how he sees the organization going forward is developing talent from within.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re fully committed to where we need to go,\u201d Bloom said.<\/p>\n
He replaces John Mozeliak, who stepped down after the end of last season<\/p>\n
Bloom is not inheriting a job that will be easy.<\/p>\n
The franchise has seen better days. It has been 13 years since the St. Louis won the National League pennant.<\/p>\n
The Cardinals have missed the playoffs for three consecutive seasons after they were eliminated in the NL Wild Card Series in 2022.<\/p>\n
St. Louis has 11 World Series championships in the 134-year-old history of the ballclub. Only the New York Yankees have more World Series titles.<\/p>\n
The most recent World Series title came 15 years ago in Tony La Russa\u2019s last season managing the club.<\/p>\n
In the last decade, St. Louis has won just one playoff series. In the last five years, the Cardinals have won just one playoff game. The Cardinals finished this past season with a 78-84 record.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That is unacceptable, Bloom said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur goal is to field a team every year and compete for this division and a World Series championship,\u201d Bloom said. \u201cWe can be good but never good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bloom, a 2004 Yale University graduate, spent 15 years (2005-19) in the Tampa Bay Rays baseball operations department, including the final three as senior vice president of baseball operations.<\/p>\n
Bloom held the title of chief baseball officer for the Boston Red Sox from Oct. 28, 2019, through Sept. 14, 2023. The Red Sox advanced to the American League Championship Series in 2021 under Bloom\u2019s watch.<\/p>\n
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After spending the last two years as a senior advisor to Mozeliak, Bloom now takes charge in St. Louis.<\/p>\n
He will follow the \u201cdraft and develop\u201d system the Cardinals have used under Bill DeWitt Jr., the team\u2019s chairman.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Cardinals win first and foremost with players we develop,\u201d Bloom said. \u201cThat operating model that has sustained this organization for decades is still sound.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut for it to develop the results that we need, we have to be elite at acquiring and developing baseball talent in every aspect.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the past three years the Cardinals saw the farm system fail to produce any impact players, and fans showed their displeasure.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI understand their frustration,\u201d DeWitt Jr. said. \u201cThey love their Cardinals. They love their Cardinals winning. We\u2019re going to make every effort to get back to that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cardinals President Bill DeWitt III said he has noticed what the fans did.<\/p>\n
\u201cMessage received,\u201d DeWitt III said. \u201cWe know a winning team is most important in terms of attendance.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the plan.<\/p>\n
There are no quick fixes to what ails the franchise. Bloom is not putting any polish on what he thinks is the way to go.<\/p>\n
It starts with getting younger and letting those players develop.<\/p>\n
That doesn\u2019t mean there is not any hope for this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve tried to be very clear about this,\u201d Bloom said. \u201cWe are not prioritizing short-term success over what needs to happen in the long term, and even with that, I think the mindset is such that you\u2019re never going to stop trying to win, and there is some way by which you\u2019ll always assess where you are by the standings. That\u2019s not going to change. It is also that we can\u2019t let that distract us from where we need to go.\u201d<\/p>\n
Win totals alone is not the measure of progress that is being sought by the organization. Don\u2019t gauge success by the standings in the Central Division, either.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhether it\u2019s stuff that happened here at the major league level, stuff that happened throughout the system and even stuff behind the curtain \u2013 that is going to be necessary for us to succeed over time and make really good acquisitions and really smart baseball decisions,\u201d Bloom said. \u201cThat is further ahead than it was. That\u2019s a big part of how I\u2019m going to assess that. It\u2019s important to feel like we have kind of charted some kind of course from where we are to where we need to be and that we are moving down that path.\u201d<\/p>\n
Youth must be served.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know we are going to have to do this really from within,\u201d Bloom said. \u201cI\u2019ve said it a lot of times, and I\u2019m going to say it a lot more times. That\u2019s how the Cardinals have always won. That\u2019s how we win. For us to put resources toward that \u2013 if we do it right those will pay off for us tenfold in terms of really good, young talent on the field and being able to sustain that. And keep replenishing that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chaim Bloom (Source: MLB) (Source: MLB) As the new president of baseball operations for the St. Louis Cardinals,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[5,2316,2323,3842,2437,2313,2325,2453,48,10149,10146,19,2310,2328,2304,2308,4,2305,2303,3841,185,3844,2339,2324,2462,3843,67,2311],"class_list":["post-647733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-competitions","tag-baseball-events","tag-baseball-governing-bodies","tag-baseball-leagues","tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","tag-baseball-teams","tag-baseball-teams-in-st-louis","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-chaim-bloom","tag-john-mozeliak","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-major-league-baseball-teams","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason","tag-professional-sports-leagues","tag-sports","tag-sports-clubs-and-teams","tag-sports-competitions","tag-sports-events","tag-sports-leagues","tag-sports-organizations","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-team-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647733","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=647733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}