Of course the Red Sox weren’t going to fire Chaim Bloom or Alex Cora.
They had a bad year. A really, really bad year.
But to fire either one of them at this point would be short-sighted and send a signal of instability throughout the entire organization. They’d lose credibility for hiring a chief baseball officer who had to deal with an inflated payroll and wasn’t given much of a choice in promptly firing his manager for getting involved in a cheating scandal and then trading Mookie Betts after the previous regime failed to sign him to a long-term extension.
