BOSTON — For the better part of the last three seasons, the Red SoxHave made the most of their moves with an eye towards the future.
You might save for adding Kyle SchwarberThe deadline in 2021 was a move to strengthen the lineup for a playoff push. Nearly all of the decisions Chaim Bloom, chief baseball officer, and the front office made since his arrival have in some way helped the club further down the road. There are many examples, whether it was the trading of major leaguers for prospects or refusing to part with certain prospects in exchange for big-league talent.
Building for the future is an ongoing endeavor by good teams. But there was a noticeable shift on Thursday at the Red Sox season-ending media conference.
Bloom was asked about balancing the team’s present and future goals.
“I’m glad you asked that,” he said. “It’s something that I’ve thought about this year. Honestly, I think that’s something that every good organization does. We want to win. Maybe that’s on me for framing things the way I did, but every good organization is doing that, I think, in different ways. And the sense of urgency and competitiveness – that has underlined everything I’ve done. If I’ve communicated that in a way to make you think we’re trading off some kind of sense of urgency or desire to win because of different decisions we’ve made or different ways we’ve navigated things, that’s on me. We’re in this for one reason, which is to win.”
It was an entirely different tone. Not that the Red Sox haven’t tried to win in the past (to varying degrees of success) — they were never a full-on tank-mode team.
