The Boston Red Sox picked up Sonny Gray in a trade with the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday afternoon, giving them another top-tier pitcher to add to their starting rotation. Making this deal a bit more interesting for the Sox is that they had to hammer it out with their old friend, Chaim Bloom .

Bloom was Craig Breslow’s predecessor as Boston’s president of baseball operations, as he spent four seasons with the team before he got fired at the end of the 2023 campaign. Now, Bloom is with St. Louis, and one of his first big moves of the offseason involved swinging a deal with his former squad.

Considering how Bloom’s tenure with the Sox ended, it was fair to wonder if there was bad blood between the two sides that could potentially prevent deals from being made this offseason. Instead,

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