![]() The one big significant outside free-agent that Bloom invested in - the six-year, $140 million deal for Trevor Story - has been a disaster. The free-agent market is not efficient, yet is the place to find stars. Webb and Devers are homegrown, meaning these two organizations likely will have to go outside to find difference-makers - unless they truly believe shortstop prospects Marco Luciano (Giants) and Marcelo Mayer (Red Sox) are capable of instant impacts in 2024. The lack of urgency to do more than to prioritize the future cost Bloom his job as Red Sox upper management - in their now familiar Wilpon-ian way - made sure the blood splattered on an outgoing executive to try to avoid the responsibility that begins at the top. Interestingly, those were all leftovers from a Dave Dombrowski tenure criticized for gutting the farm system and dismissing the future.īut ultimately both teams fell short because they lacked aircraft carriers - the type that carry a team all season. Boston did have a nice layer of players arriving, as Bloom indicated, notably Brayan Bello, Triston Casas and Jarren Duran. Getty Imagesīoth would point to the young players they broke in. 500.ĩ Logan Webb helped propel the Giants into the playoff race, but he’ll need help, especially on the offensive side, if the Giants are to make it back to the postseason with their current core. They each had moments during the year when they looked as if a strong run to October was possible, but both faded late and look as if they will finish under. The Giants and Red Sox are going to miss the playoffs in somewhat similar fashions. Second on the Red Sox was Chris Martin, an outstanding two-year sign, but also a 37-year-old journeyman reliever. Second on the Giants through Sunday was LaMonte Wade Jr., a nice supplementary player but a supplementary player nonetheless (Conforto was seventh after another season of injury-touched, league-average-ish production). As things stand currently, Webb does indeed lead San Francisco in Wins Above Replacement (Baseball Reference) and Devers the same for Boston. ![]() This was essentially a question to underscore what I perceived - that there was an extreme dropoff from their best player to their second-best player not befitting large-market clubs. Bloom (who was relieved of his duties last week) did not name a player, but suggested that the club had several up-and-comers who he anticipated being above-average players. ![]() Zaidi pondered and eventually wondered if it would be Michael Conforto, who didn’t play last season and was new to San Francisco. ![]() I asked the same question of the heads of baseball operations for the Giants (Farhan Zaidi) and the Red Sox (Chaim Bloom) before this season:īasically, if there were a dispersal draft and I had the first pick and took Logan Webb off the Giants and Rafael Devers off the Red Sox, who would each executive take next off of their roster. ![]()
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