I don’t know if the guy is going to be a good advisor or a bad one, but I know there is more to a man than his team’s place in the standings. The Sox under Bloom were 267-262 in a lot tougher division than the NL Central.
What I have read suggests Bloom was asked to try to make the Red Sox more like the Rays and accordingly was not given the resources of the past years. Their payroll was 12th last season in a downward trend after having been first in MLB in both 2018 and 2019, just before he arrived (per Cots). That is a major change.
Positive factoids per the Boston Globe:
The Sox reached the 2021 ALCS
Their farm system improved from among the worst to fifth, per BA (this was correcting a notorious weakness of the Theo and followers prior regimes, especially lack of pitching development)
Negative factoids (many of which seem to revolve around spending less money):
Poor return for Mookie Betts (not that he had to be traded, but the return for him)
Failure to add players at 2023 deadline when 2.5 games back of Wild Card (do we think he didn’t want to spend?)
Poor starting pitching depth (if you haven’t developed it, you have to buy it)
Tried to buy and sell at 2022 deadline
Xander Bogaerts allowed to reach free agency (noted not all his fault)
Signing Trevor Story (biggest signing has been a bust)
Trading Hunter Renfroe and Andrew Benintendi
Again, I ask to those who don’t like Bloom, who would you have hired instead?