3 trades Chaim Bloom didn’t make that killed the Red Sox season

1. How in the world did Chaim Bloom not get the Red Sox a starting pitcher?

Immediately after the trade deadline, Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic reported that the Red Sox were one of the teams in on Justin Verlander. Obviously, the Mets ended up trading him to Houston, but it’s at least good to know that Bloom was interested in that big swing. On the other hand, it also seems like Verlander was all but forcing his way back to the Astros with his no-trade clause.

And that’s where the problem lies with Chaim Bloom and how he’s sunk this franchise of late.

He clearly identified that the Red Sox need help with their starting pitching. Yes, part of that is due to injuries, but part of it is just a lack of depth after whiffing one someone like Corey Kluber in free agency (a whole other can of worms to open) and needing to address that.

That’s what makes it so infuriating to see an organization with a Top 5 farm system in baseball that is absolutely loaded with talent — not including the Cedanne Rafaelas, Nick Yorkes and Marcelo Mayers of the world either — that could swing a trade for someone like Michael Lorenzen or Lucas Giolito and not doing anything about it.

By doing nothing to address the starting pitching issue in Boston, this team is now simply waiting and hoping for the returns of injured players to save a season that might already be lost by the time that they return. For a front office to not recognize that and realize that they could’ve fixed the issue at the trade deadline is maddening and, frankly, unforgivable.