Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB on the Go: Chaim Bloom Is Talking Team-Building, Roman Anthony
12 Nov 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Yeah, there should be some passion. This doesn't have to be boring.
Welcome to Baseball Isn't Boring.
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Has there been any notable changes in the way teams are built from your perspective?
Um... It's always changing, but I think these things, while they're happening, they tend to feel more like gradual evolutions as opposed to some sea change. You always see some things where a team wins or a team gets farther than you might have thought and they're built a certain way and then there's a lot of talk about everybody's going to copy what that team is doing.
I think that tends to be more narrative than reality because in most of these cases... A team wasn't necessarily a secret how this team was built. They just executed on it. And they had really good results. And most people I know in this business, we're always looking around and trying to see what our competitors are doing.
Not to distract us from what our own identity needs to be, but just understand what's out there. Understand what the competition is doing. Make sure we're not missing anything. And I think those things tend to happen more gradually. To the extent that you do see it, I think sometimes it's just because...
There are certain innovations, certain developments, potentially coaching, potentially how you can impact the talent level of certain players, or even just the impact they can have on winning, that those will spread quickly around the league. And it may impact things, like thinking about something like...
When we first began to be able to quantify the impact of receiving, what, 10, 15 years ago, closer to 15, you saw that really change who teams were playing a catcher very quickly. And those are the types of things that if it's quantifiable, and a lot of times that happens more on the individual player level, somebody will...
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Chapter 2: What notable changes in team-building does Chaim Bloom discuss?
How did they do that? What can we learn? Blue Jays have good contact, right?
Yeah, make no mistake, you can learn things from those teams. It's just usually in the industry we're looking around enough that we didn't just notice it because somebody did something in the World Series. You see it coming, you see what they're doing.
or to the extent that a team's doing something that you didn't expect them to do, you better look in the mirror and say, well, is this a fluke, or did I miss something? Did I miss something in the way I was looking at how this particular bunch of skills would add up to wins? And so you try to answer some of those questions.
Well put. What do you remember when Roman Anthony redrafted him?
Well, this is about as good an outcome as you could possibly expect when you take a player in that situation.
Well, do you remember the first time that he got on your radar?
Well, I remember the conversations we had about him all that spring. And it was really interesting because he was a player that had changed a lot, who had made an adjustment going into the spring. And there was really a decision that every organization had to make on where you're going to buy into that. Are you going to buy into that sticking and him taking off in pro ball? And I give...
uh the staff um their ton of credit for believing in it being stubborn to that and then you know being willing to extend uh to make sure make sure that we got it and then you get them and then sort of like you said this best case scenario right you just don't know but what is it what as you went through it like what is the thing that
Because there has to be an acceptance from the player, right, to make the adjustments.
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