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Red Sox GM Search & Other Front Office Moves
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Post by rdsxmbnt on Oct 25, 2019 16:40:17 GMT -5
So pumped for this. Appreciative of DD's job as a GM in winning the World Series and generally competing throughout, but overall I'm excited for them to hopefully get back to the player development/analytics that used to make the team so fun to follow (at least for me).
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Post by kevfc89 on Oct 25, 2019 16:52:32 GMT -5
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Post by Guidas on Oct 25, 2019 17:12:09 GMT -5
L'Chiam Chiam!
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Oct 25, 2019 17:12:49 GMT -5
Brian O'Halloran becomes GM.
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Post by incandenza on Oct 25, 2019 17:46:26 GMT -5
Brian O'Halloran becomes GM. What's the division of labor these days between a GM and the King of Baseball or whatever Bloom's title is?
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Post by RedSoxStats on Oct 25, 2019 18:20:13 GMT -5
I presume O'Halloran will continue doing what he has done under all his previous titles, mostly contract work. He's been here 4 years longer than Romero.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Oct 25, 2019 20:19:10 GMT -5
Actually it's Chaim. Pretty cool. Chaim is actually my Hebrew name.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Oct 25, 2019 20:20:17 GMT -5
From what else I read, Chaim Bloom was the first, last, and only external candidate the Red Sox interviewed. I hadn't realized that he wrote for Baseball Prospectus when he was really, really young, so out goes Bill James and in comes Chaim Bloom.
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Post by bosox81 on Oct 25, 2019 20:41:17 GMT -5
Yes, please! Make the Red Sox fun again!
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Post by Canseco on Oct 25, 2019 20:48:38 GMT -5
Pardon my ignorance, but how might one pronounce “Chaim”?
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Post by Don Caballero on Oct 25, 2019 20:54:08 GMT -5
Pardon my ignorance, but how might one pronounce “Chaim”? Like THIS:
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Post by stevedillard on Oct 25, 2019 20:55:00 GMT -5
So, does he have a minor league/amateur draft track record, or was his work confined to the MLB level?
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Post by bosox on Oct 25, 2019 20:55:42 GMT -5
Pardon my ignorance, but how might one pronounce “Chaim”? According to the Rays its pronounced HIGH-em.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Oct 25, 2019 21:16:33 GMT -5
Pardon my ignorance, but how might one pronounce “Chaim”? Actually it's kind of guttural, as if you're gargling plegm. It's not Hi-am. The C isn't silent, but it's not CH like the word change. Like I said, that is actually my Hebrew name and that's how it's pronounced. Even though it is a guttural C sound it's not heavily accented, which is why the H sounds more dominant in the name.
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Post by grandsalami on Oct 25, 2019 21:35:19 GMT -5
Pardon my ignorance, but how might one pronounce “Chaim”? Actually it's kind of guttural, as if you're gargling plegm. It's not Hi-am. The C isn't silent, but it's not CH like the word change. Like I said, that is actually my Hebrew name and that's how it's pronounced. Even though it is a guttural C sound it's not heavily accented, which is why the H sounds more dominant in the name. Pardon my ignorance, but how might one pronounce “Chaim”? According to the Rays its pronounced HIGH-em. Pardon my ignorance, but how might one pronounce “Chaim”? Redsox0407 has bingo. My Hebrew school teacher was named Chaim.
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Post by RedSoxStats on Oct 25, 2019 22:08:17 GMT -5
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Post by bosox on Oct 25, 2019 22:08:31 GMT -5
Pardon my ignorance, but how might one pronounce “Chaim”? Actually it's kind of guttural, as if you're gargling plegm. It's not Hi-am. The C isn't silent, but it's not CH like the word change. Like I said, that is actually my Hebrew name and that's how it's pronounced. Even though it is a guttural C sound it's not heavily accented, which is why the H sounds more dominant in the name. MLB should correct the pronunciation statement on his Bio on their Rays team website. Maybe they'll change it when he has his Bio on the Sox page.
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Post by bosox on Oct 25, 2019 22:18:48 GMT -5
Here's an interview with Chaim Bloom that Mark Feinsand did last year:
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Oct 25, 2019 22:19:39 GMT -5
Actually it's kind of guttural, as if you're gargling plegm. It's not Hi-am. The C isn't silent, but it's not CH like the word change. Like I said, that is actually my Hebrew name and that's how it's pronounced. Even though it is a guttural C sound it's not heavily accented, which is why the H sounds more dominant in the name. MLB should correct the pronunciation statement on his Bio on their Rays team website. Maybe they'll change it when he has his Bio on the Sox page. I can only imagine the confusion when Theo Epstein was hired. I knew nothing about him, so I wondered if it was Theo Ep-STINE or Theo Ep-STEEN. Honestly, if my own Hebrew name wasn't Chaim I wouldn't know the correct way to pronounce it either.
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Post by larrycook on Oct 26, 2019 0:49:58 GMT -5
His past work in baseball has covered a bunch of different areas. Very impressive resume. Instant upgrade over desperate Dave.
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Post by jimoh on Oct 26, 2019 6:30:19 GMT -5
Here's an interview with Chaim Bloom that Mark Feinsand did last year: Great interview! As a professor of Latin I also appreciate what he say at the start about how studying “Latin Classics” was good training for learning how to think differently and for challenging him intellectually.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Oct 26, 2019 6:46:48 GMT -5
His past work in baseball has covered a bunch of different areas. Very impressive resume. Instant upgrade over desperate Dave. I'm every bit as excited about the Chaim Bloom era that's about to start as anybody else is, but if he has half the career that "Desperate" Dave has had then Chaim Bloom has done well. Dombrowski has been around for more than 40 years and has 2 championships on his resume, including the most dominant Red Sox team of all-time. Dombrowski could wind up in the HOF. I suspect Theo will. Here's hoping that Chaim Bloom, with the Red Sox, has that kind of a career, too.
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Post by James Dunne on Oct 26, 2019 7:12:53 GMT -5
His past work in baseball has covered a bunch of different areas. Very impressive resume. Instant upgrade over desperate Dave. I'm every bit as excited about the Chaim Bloom era that's about to start as anybody else is, but if he has half the career that "Desperate" Dave has had then Chaim Bloom has done well. Dombrowski has been around for more than 40 years and has 2 championships on his resume, including the most dominant Red Sox team of all-time. Dombrowski could wind up in the HOF. I suspect Theo will. Here's hoping that Chaim Bloom, with the Red Sox, has that kind of a career, too. He's been riding the "desperate dave" schtick since 2015, just ignore it.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Oct 26, 2019 7:29:07 GMT -5
I'm every bit as excited about the Chaim Bloom era that's about to start as anybody else is, but if he has half the career that "Desperate" Dave has had then Chaim Bloom has done well. Dombrowski has been around for more than 40 years and has 2 championships on his resume, including the most dominant Red Sox team of all-time. Dombrowski could wind up in the HOF. I suspect Theo will. Here's hoping that Chaim Bloom, with the Red Sox, has that kind of a career, too. He's been riding the "desperate dave" schtick since 2015, just ignore it. What IS it with some people (shrug)?
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Post by geostorm on Oct 26, 2019 7:43:09 GMT -5
www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/282617/chaim-bloom-tampa-bay-rays(not one of the mainstream articles you'll see, but an interesting & insightful one, from just at the start of the 2019 season, with some nice exchanges involving Chaim, directly, on baseball, in general, the Rays approach, and, nice insights on his life intersecting with baseball) "I asked Bloom how the decision to use an opener came about. He said that it wasn’t the result of any single conversation, and it wasn’t even entirely the Rays’ own idea. “This is not something that we had just come up with, or necessarily that we came up with at all,” he explained. “This is something that I think was part of baseball conversations certainly for as long as I’ve been in the game.” Many teams had pondered whether there might be a more efficient way to use their pitchers, rather than cramming them into a rigid rotational structure. But until 2018, none had done much about it. Part of the problem was simply the reputational risk of trying something new. “If you do something conventionally and it doesn’t work, you don’t take the blame,” noted Bloom. “If you do something differently and it doesn’t work, you’re going to be under a microscope, and people are going to be pointing fingers at you.” He credits his organizational staff for taking the plunge. “They were unafraid to risk that.” The other difficulty was the human component. Even if the opener concept looked good on paper, executing it meant getting players who had trained to play the game one way to play it very differently. “It’s easy to come up with an idea,” said Bloom. “The trick is implementing the idea and communicating it and getting buy-in and getting everybody on board.” In other words, rather than treating players like cogs in a machine who can be manipulated at will, one has to treat them like human beings. “Our field staff did such a tremendous job of that,” Bloom continued. “They were willing to put in the hard work of communicating to the players: This is what we’re doing, and why. Here’s how we think it can help you, and how we think it can help us win games.” The results were apparent in interviews with Rays pitchers, who became enthusiastic evangelists for the opener. This careful process was emblematic of Bloom’s people-first approach to baseball. On paper, he is easy to typecast as an Ivy League nerd who entered baseball at the height of the Moneyball statistical revolution, and who came to upend the traditions of the game with computational analysis. Because of his age and background, many presume that Bloom is the sort of person more comfortable with databases and spreadsheets than actual players, coaches, and staff. But while Bloom is certainly fluent in advanced analytics, that’s not his calling card. This was evident when we sat behind home plate watching the Rays take on the Phillies in one of the final games of spring training. Throughout the contest, Bloom ticked off not numbers, but the names of individual prospects, where they signed from, and what was exciting about them."
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