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During GM Meetings in Las Vegas, Red Sox chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom addressed shortstop Xander Bogaerts’s decision to opt out of the final three years and $60 million of his contract on Monday to become a free agent. Needless to say, he was dismayed with the decision.
“It’s disappointing because Xander has been [a] credit to this organization every day that he’s been in it. We want him here. He makes us better,” Bloom said, per The Boston Globe. “We respect his right to exercise [the opt-out] and to explore the market. We want him back and we will stay engaged with him.”
