Playoff bubble team playing up to the bubble capabilities with some good days and some bad days and not enough depth or skill (not talking potential when talking "skill" here, just basic grade A fundamentals which they are lacking...).
Whether Bloom is the right guy or not, I don't know. I do feel he was right not to buy at the deadline though, because if you have both an undisciplined - and - a shallow depth roster on the bubble, you don't go all in. No debate. Can't teach good fundamentals with a couple weeks left even if you add skill and depth to backstop the gaps on the roster.
It does beg the question of whether Cora is simply not a grade A coach with his staff to teach fundamentals and being prepared as a pro - OR - Blooms' analytics algorithm has a major flaw and it doesn't account for the 5th tool of brains to play fundamentally sound BBall and the Sox are in a world of hurt because you "can't teach not playing stupid". Hopefully it's not both because in that case this will take a while to rinse from the system.
Whether Bloom is the right guy or not, I don't know. I do feel he was right not to buy at the deadline though, because if you have both an undisciplined - and - a shallow depth roster on the bubble, you don't go all in. No debate. Can't teach good fundamentals with a couple weeks left even if you add skill and depth to backstop the gaps on the roster.
It does beg the question of whether Cora is simply not a grade A coach with his staff to teach fundamentals and being prepared as a pro - OR - Blooms' analytics algorithm has a major flaw and it doesn't account for the 5th tool of brains to play fundamentally sound BBall and the Sox are in a world of hurt because you "can't teach not playing stupid". Hopefully it's not both because in that case this will take a while to rinse from the system.
