During a schedule that shuttled him from news conference to television interviews to podcasts, the Cardinals introduced Chaim Bloom officially Tuesday as the team's second president of baseball operations. He takes over a front in which he's been an adviser for almost two years, and he inherits a minor league system he was charged with expanding and modernizing over the past 12 months.

The Cardinals gathered Bloom and several reporters and columnists on the beat around a table at Busch Stadium for a lengthy conversation about his vision and what's next for the club.

Here are four takeaways from the four Post-Dispatch writers present:

Lynn Worthy, columnist: Chaim hedged. If you braced for Bloom to hit you with a blunt assessment and a deliberate timeline to Cardinals contention, then y

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