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By Mark Powell
MLB news: Chaim Bloom receives death threats over Red Sox
It was a tough offseason in Boston.
While Chaim Bloom and the Red Sox front office rebounded by extending Rafael Devers to a massive contract, it doesn’t completely make up for losing Xander Bogaerts. The shortstop was a rare homegrown star, and one who would have been open to staying in Beantown had they made a competitive offer.
In the end, the Padres blew him away, hence why he’s spending his spring training in Arizona these days rather than the Red Sox facility in Fort Myers.
As tough as that was on a loyal fanbase, it shouldn’t warrant threats towards the general manager/head of baseball operations. Bloom is the figurehead of the Red Sox front office. He is the man who fans direct all grievances towards.
Per the Boston Globe, some of those grievances turned violent in the form of death threats and racial slurs:
"“Bloom is reluctant to comment on the rare death threats and an antisemitic slur he’s received. He doesn’t want to talk about having trouble sleeping when the team plays poorly or about migraine headaches he occasionally gets,” Grossfeld wrote Friday. ‘I’ve had them my whole life,’ he says. “‘I don’t think that days are going to be better because [Red Sox fans] know that I’m suffering when we lose, even though I am,’ he says.”"
Bloom, obviously, does not deserve such treatment from any Red Sox fans.