Chaim Bloom, the Tampa Bay Rays vice president of baseball operations is the frontrunner to become the next general manager of the Red Sox, according to multiple reports.
Chad Jennings and Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic were first to report that Bloom had interviewed for the job.
Bloom, 36, assumed the top spot in Rays baseball operations when Andrew Friedman left to join the Dodgers in 2014. He's a Philadelphia native and 2004 graduate of Yale who has worked for the Rays for 15 years.
The Red Sox fired Dave Dombrowski as president of baseball operations in September. Raquel Ferreira, Brian O'Halloran, Eddie Romero, and Zack Scott have been running Sox baseball operations since then.
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