Is the clock ticking for Chaim Bloom?
The Red Sox are moving on from Matt Dermody, the pitcher whose past offensive tweets stirred controversy when Boston called him up for a spot start last week.
The Red Sox designated Dermody for assignment right after that game, but he remained in the organization and pitched for Triple-A Worcester Wednesday night. Now, even that is over.
MassLive's Sean McAdam was the first to report Dermody's release.
The initial controversy around Dermody was centered around one homophobic tweet in 2021, in which he said that gay people "will go to hell." The tweet had since been deleted.
Red Sox chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom said that while the organization was not aware of the tweet when they signed Dermody to a minor-league deal in January, they did address it with him in spring training once they learned of it and were convinced that Dermody understood that it was wrong, and why it was wrong.
Since then, however, other past offensive tweets from Dermody have surfaced, causing the Red Sox to re-evaluate their decision to keep the 32-year-old journeyman.
“We pride ourselves on doing the right due diligence so that we can have the right conversations around these things,” Bloom told the Boston Globe this week. “We realized as this was unfolding [after the call-up] that a process that is normally pretty robust missed some things. There were other concerning things on social media. We usually don’t miss these types of things. In this case we did.”
Obviously, Bloom and the Red Sox have now finished whatever additional evaluations they needed to make and have decided it's time to completely cut ties with Dermody.
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