Red Sox left one player short following Adam Duvall’s injury
Chaim Bloom’s bad trend continues with poor roster construction
The Red Sox are 5-4 in large part to the scorching hot bat of Adam Duvall. Prior to hitting the 10-day IL with a broken wrist that could sideline him for months, he was arguably the hottest hitter in baseball.
His walk off heroics in the second game, his three-run bomb to complete the comeback against Detroit was his top two highlights.
However, now that he is out it highlights once again chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom has left the Red Sox hung out to dry for the short term.
When Trevor Story got hurt, the Red Sox had to get a middle infielder. Unfortunately, there was no one that could replace Story’s athleticism and bat at the time. However, the Red Sox knew the need was there. They ultimately traded for Adalberto Mondesi, who is coming off a torn ACL.
The 27-year-old has struggled with injuries in 2021 and 2022 combining for 50 games total. Instead of getting a healthy infielder, Bloom opted for a middle infielder that has his favorite word “potential.”
Story got hurt late in the offseason and the options were really thin, but the decision was made to replace an injured player with a player coming off a torn ACL is proving costly. This move for the short term, never made any sense especially when the rest of the roster has injury red flags all over the place.
If the Red Sox had a healthy alternative at shortstop with experience, Enrique Hernandez could go back to play gold glove defense in center. Instead he remains at shortstop where he already has five errors.
Much like last year when Bloom failed to bridge the gap to Triston Casas at first base and get an actual closer, he failed to bridge the gap to a healthy Trevor Story.
The Red Sox schedule will get tougher now and they’re calling up Bobby Dalbec as depth due to poor roster construction.
Bloom decided to take a long term approach leaving this current Red Sox team with very little options. Losing Xander Bogaerts won’t cost Bloom his job, it is these smaller roster moves or lack of that could down the line. When you play with fire you will get burned, and Bloom is not even 10 games in to 2023 and the heat has been turned up.
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Kind of a “downer” article. There was poor hitting in Monday’s game. 1 nothing doesn’t win games.