The Cardinals Made A VERY Controversial Hire

Hello and welcome to my channel! In this video, I go over how the Cardinals Hired ARGUABLY the Dumbest Man In Baseball...?
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Title: The Cardinals Hired The Dumbest Man In Baseball
By: Purely Baseball

[@ZaKRo-bx7lp]

Chaim Bloom is looking less and less like an incompetent GM and more like a victim of bad ownership. Even with the current Red Sox regime, he managed to convince them to keep Devers and sign Yoshida when it seemed like everyone was gonna end up leaving them behind. Also, not extending Bogaerts to a massive deal like the Padres did seems like a good move in retrospect.

[@mikeaaron9053]

He did everything ownership told him to do and ownership blamed him for it not working. Great move by the Cardinals

[@PurelyBaseballYT]

I agree its a great move. The Mookie trade feels almost fully ownership related. But he did so much that fell onto him as a GM, that he failed at. In an advisor role he’l be much better

[@rayrussell6258]

@@PurelyBaseballYT nope, if you can't do a job right when you have full responsibility, you certainly can't be an advisor to someone else. Leaders don't follow, they lead.

[@thenolans2172]

Gotta remember that it's not the GMS money to spend.. it's not always a green light to hand out 300m+

[@gcanada3005]

Sweet the jays got rid of Ross Atkins

[@PurelyBaseballYT]

Of course, I agree. But its important to remember that it wasn’t all the ownership. Choosing to say no to trades, not making a bold move, or being buyers or sellers at most deadlines. Had his upside with drafting of course

[@seplays2280]

Chaim isn’t completely dumb. He was t ready to be a GM but still Has solid potential in an organization. I don’t think hiring him is a bad move for any team so long as he’s not the one making the moves

[@moy.j]

I don't think Chaim did that bad (as a Sox fan). Let's be honest we jbed the front office didn't wanna pay Mookie and Chaim was willing to take the heat. I'll give him a lil more flack for losing Bogarts but as the guy who commented bellow me noted it just jot his money to spend I believe had he had the free reign he woulds given some nice extensions. He did what he had to do which was drop Mookie and booster the farm system which has is set up for a solid longterm outlook. I think the Cards are gonna have a sleep build moment and Packy Naughton will developed and have THE comeback season of all seasons.

[@rayrussell6258]

Don't pick out mouse turds in a pile of pepper ..... Bloom made all the decisions that led to 3 seasons out of 4 ending in last place. It wasn't just Mookie.

[@moy.j]

@@rayrussell6258 hey man, I just wanna see 617 native Packy Naughton have a successful career in the show

[@dennishaas4745]

Did Bloom follow Dave Dombroski ?

[@rayrussell6258]

@@dennishaas4745 yes, the story is the Boston owner was furious with Dombrowski after he won the World Series, and fired him. Two months later, they hired Bloom, and they did tell him initially to get the payroll in better shape, but that wasn't the case in the remaining years Bloom was in Boston. Bloom just wasn't the right man for the job.

[@Castoth1]

Calling him the dumbest man in baseball is click bait. Video itself doesn't even commit to that premise, much less provide enough evidence. He's okay at best. I liked the video, but the title is putrid.

[@jethrojacinto2798]

Agreed. I like this guy but the titles is getting click baity and toxic. How is Bloom is dumb when it's the Red Sox' front office fault, Bloom is just a mouthpiece.

[@morcatna4767]

I think the front office for Boston is to blame not necessarily Chaim. We will see this season tho

[@victorparedes6887]

Yep I’mm asking youtube to not recommend this channel any more because of this. Same with other channels who use these tactics. We have to fight back or it will never stop.

[@schauber95]

Correct he was handcuffed by the Red Sox top brass

[@jakargoo2990]

changed the tittle lmao

[@bronsonbamnallen1633]

Marlins seriously offered Cabrera for old ass Turner on an expiring contract!? Sounds like the Marlins executive who offered that deserves to be called the dumbest guy in Baseball.

[@jjfairbanks4]

I wouldn’t call Bloom the dumbest man in baseball. He did his job to reconstruct Bostons farm system (that’s his specialty) but he came up short as a Chief Officer way above his punching class. Who knows maybe he can improve from here with the Cards never kick a man when he’s down. Now NY city construction commissioner Robert Moses losing both the Dodgers and Giants now that was dumb LOL

[@BoondockBrony]

I don't think Chaim is dumb, but I think a big market like Boston didn't match his mindset. Bloom honestly comes off as a guy who would fit a mid to small market team pretty well. I think he will fit with the Cards rather well.

[@DetroitSportsFanSince2002]

Al Avila was the dumbest guy when he was Tigers GM 😂

[@rayrussell6258]

Avila is becoming a genius when compared to Mozeliak in St Louis. Both the Tigers and Cardinals are my favorite teams in their respective leagues. It's not been easy being a fan of either of those teams lately, due to the awful front office decisions they make.

[@DetroitSportsFanSince2002]

​@@rayrussell6258 😂

[@darthvadersith514]

Even you said in an earlier video that Chaim Bloom made some great decisions with the Red Sox's farm system. THAT could be good for the Cardinals going forward. He won't be calling all of the shots like a GM would because John Mozeliak is still in charge. But if the Cardinals hired Bloom to improve the Cardinals farm system, this could be a brilliant hire. Plus, from what I know and from what you've said in a recent Red Sox video, Cardinals owner Bill DeWitt's mindset is not the same as that of the Red Sox's ownership group.

[@jethrojacinto2798]

Click baity ass title, you're better than this cmon now.

[@rayrussell6258]

Not fully true .... he was hired by someone who could be the dumbest man in baseball right now, Mozeliak. And being honest, you can't be a good advisor if you aren't good at doing the job yourself. That's just like believing smoke is fog. They're not the same.

[@dennishaas4745]

I am a Cardinal fan and I don't care who they hire as long as we see results on the field. I bought a scorecard at a Cardinal game last year and they had 10 coaches listed and with all those coaches you would have thought that they would have been better fundamentally in the field, worst Cardinal team that I have seen since 1970 !

[@genedilorenzo713]

They hired Brian Cashman and Hal owns the Cardinals now.😂

[@PurelyBaseballYT]

😂😂

[@brandensimmons653]

Management told him to make those deals in Boston with ownership blaming him for everything so he not dumb Just under pressure from John Henry

[@PurelyBaseballYT]

Yes, ownerships impacted his tenure. The Mookie trade, yes. Mandated Budget, yes. But he failed to trade away expiring contracts, allowing them to walk. Never chose a true direction, sell or buy. He was always the scapegoat to an extent, but lets not forget.. he made bad moves

[@davidbenkert1062]

Cards fan here. Cards are in full competition with the Yanks for the dumbest brass in MLB. Stay tuned...

[@markdecarolis8714]

Mistake firing him...Cora should have been shown the door!

[@loganhanks1866]

As a huge Cardinals I don't like this signing at all. Bloom is bad getting good pitchers and making minors league pitcher bad too. Overall our offinse is still good but, our pitching need to get better or else we are wasting a another season again.

[@creightondunbar1381]

absolutely zero chance the marlins offered Edward Cabrera for JT

[@PurelyBaseballYT]

Yep they did… around the time he was optioned too.

[@maksports95]

As a Pirates fan, I feel no sympathy for them

[@JackTubeJJJ]

What a way to come home from school. A purely baseball video!

[@Alan-rw3ez]

His job was to literally keep a cheap payroll and win. He was the scapegoat and person blamed. end of story.

[@PurelyBaseballYT]

Sure, I do agree. Except some people are putting to much of this on the ownership, and not Bloom. Bloom didn’t trade Bogaerts, Wacha, and Eovaldi. Its one thing if they were close on contract talks, but they weren’t. He kept them around, just for them to leave for nothing over his tenure. He signed Trevor Story, over pitching. He did a lot of bad as GM. But he was also wrongfully labled as “cheap”. The cheap ones, were the ownership. We know that

[@Parlimant_Strifey]

iTalk loves that guy, the greatest est of GMs from mankind.

[@dagoodistever7186]

I’m the best gm in the leauge tigers are a superpower

[@PurelyBaseballYT]

Superteam 2024

[@Miya-wr7sp]

we Needa get that Japan pitcher Nothing Else

[@jamesszczesniak3186]

sooo the Cardinals got Lynn....

[@chrisweidner4768]

So which is real? I saw a piece that the Red Sox had the 24th ranked minor league system when he was hired. Now the 3rd. Hmmm.

[@PurelyBaseballYT]

Yep. When he was hired, some had the farm ranked at #30 in MLB. Although, it was a bit harsh. Players like Casas, Duran, and Bello were in that #30 system. But, still. He’s done a very good job at drafting

[@DanielBenavides-do4bk]

Wtf does an advisor? Advice?!

[@capgucci9378]

All he did was put together a decent farm system and half the time prospects get traded or most of them never pans out to be that guy .so it’s not even telling if he did a good job with that yet although I like Kyle teel .

[@mariokart9227]

man was framed by the front office except that edward cabrera thing

[@PurelyBaseballYT]

Sale thing, Bogaerts not being traded, Wacha, Eovaldi. Not choosing buyers or sellers at every deadline (outside of 2021). He failed at a lot. But he was wrongfully the man who got ALL the blame for not extending players, not paying guys.

[@mariokart9227]

@@PurelyBaseballYT that’s on me I missed out on those things

[@PurelyBaseballYT]

@@mariokart9227 aye its all good brother! He made good moves too, but the bad outways it

[@gabrielv.2647]

He isn't going to be the #1 man in STL. It's one of those sit back and learn how the cardinals run their organization and maybe you can take over some day.

[@denniskish1474]

Bloom didn't own the Red Sox. He could only do what the owners wanted. Get a life.

[@PurelyBaseballYT]

He didn’t own the team, but he failed as a GM. He was given money. Paid Story, Yoshida, and Jansen. Remember when Bogaerts walked IN FA, Wacha, Eovaldi? And oh guess what, he got 0 trade value for any of them? Saying NO to trading Chris Sales entire contract. Saying no to Turner for Edward Cabrera. Yes the ownership wasn’t a positive, but Bloom SUCKED

[@capgucci9378]

@@PurelyBaseballYTall facts

[@fraggevelle]

This channel hates the cardinals . We could of signed everyone this site still would say we suck

[@PurelyBaseballYT]

Last Cardinals video was positive lol

[@capgucci9378]

The cardinals hate the cardinals been ass since Albert

[@JhonMatthew-j4w]

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