Less than two months after taking over as the Cardinals’ president of baseball operations, Chaim Bloom made his first significant trade Tuesday . It just so happened it came with the team who had fired him two years ago.

Bloom’s Cardinals shipped veteran starter Sonny Gray (and $20 million in cash) to the Red Sox for pitchers Richard Fitts and Brandon Clarke in the first big offseason move for two clubs going in different directions . The Red Sox got a veteran starter with postseason experience. The Cardinals moved an older player on an expiring contract and got two promising young arms in return. For Bloom, the talks presented a new experience. He was no longer working for the Red Sox, but had to work with them.

“There were different conversations with different people in both orga

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