Last offseason, the St. Louis Cardinals added former Boston Red Sox Chief Baseball Officer Chaim Bloom as an advisor. He was tasked with conducting an audit on the organization and giving feedback on what might need to change for the team to contend again.
Cardinals writer Bernie Miklasz took note of Bloom as somebody to keep an eye on late this season and theorized that he could take over as President of Baseball Operations this coming offseason, with rumors circulating that John Mozeliak might step into a different role.
"Any consideration of using 2025 as a transitional hand-off year from Mozeliak to his likely successor is pretty absurd. If Bloom was brought here as a consultant to study every aspect of the baseball operation in 2024, surely he now understands the scope of the job and the changes that must be made," Miklasz wrote. "How many current heads of MLB team baseball operations needed a two-season, work-study visa before ascending to the No. 1 spot? When these executives are hired to run the baseball operations, they move in right away and get real busy."
While nothing is confirmed just yet, it not only seems possible, but likely that Bloom will ultimately ascend as Mozeliak's successor and do so this coming offseason.
Now is certainly the right time for St. Louis to make changes and start a new era, and Bloom, having run the baseball operations departments for the Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays, brings an outside perspective that is needed in the Cardinals front office.
The Cardinals are increasingly likely to miss the postseason this year and another losing season also isn't out of the realm of possibility. Two straight losing seasons might accelerate the process of change in St. Louis.
It will be interesting to see what Bloom will do if promoted and how he'll run the team compared to how Mozeliak has since 2008.
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