Report: Red Sox CBO received death threats, antisemitic abuse

According to a report from the Boston Globe, Chaim Bloom has received death threats and been called an antisemitic slur by fans during his three years as the Boston Red Sox chief baseball officer.

Bloom was hired following the 2019 campaign, and in three seasons since, the Red Sox have sandwiched a run to the 2021 ALCS with two last-place finishes in the AL East.

Boston fans have found numerous ways to bash Bloom in the early part of the 2020s, roasting him for last summer's $100 per win pledge to the Jimmy Fund and venting their frustrations for letting franchise cornerstones Mookie Betts and Xander Bogaerts leave the Red Sox in February 2020 and December 2022, respectively. For what it's worth, Boston did make sure that third baseman Rafael Devers didn't slip away this winter too, signing the two-time All-Star to a historic 10-year contract extension in January.

With Betts, Bogaerts and a host of other fan favorites departing since Bloom took over, Red Sox die-hards have shifted the blame on the chief baseball officer.

"Yes, that’s not what any of us wants to bring our fans," Bloom said of the 2022 last-place finish, according to the Boston Globe report. "We did not give them what they deserved in 2022, plain and simple."

Aside from losing "X" to the San Diego Padres and retaining "Raffy," Bloom has stayed busy with other offseason moves, but many fans and media members have viewed Boston's array of additions and subtractions as a confusing mixed bag, leaving the Sox somewhere between contenders and pretenders.

The Red Sox  brought in two-time All-Star third baseman Justin Turner, two-time AL Cy Young Award winner Corey Kluber and three-time All-Star Kenley Jansen to be their closer. Turner, Kluber and Jansen are 38, 36 and 35 years old, respectively.

In addition to losing Bogaerts, Boston also said goodbye to soft-tossing lefty starter Rich Hill and 2018 World Series hero Nathan Eovaldi, two members of last year's starting rotation.

"I’ve also had a lot of people who write and say that stuff on the radio who will privately disavow it and tell me they’re performing, so I don’t take any of it personally," Bloom said. "We sucked, so of course they’re pissed like they should be."