The Boston Red Sox have hired Tampa Bay Rays’ senior vice president Chaim Bloom as its new chief baseball officer. Bloom, 36, will be “responsible for all baseball operations” for the team. He previously spent 15 years with the Rays.

Bloom grew up in Philadelphia and went to a Jewish day school before studying Latin classics at Yale University, where he graduated in 2004. He is an observant Jew and as such will not work on certain Jewish holidays and Shabbat, despite his demanding schedule as a baseball executive. In 2001, because of Rosh Hashanah, he missed the Rays’ final game against the New York Yankees, which would determine whether the Rays would make the playoffs. During his time with the Rays, Bloom had a large jar of gefilte fish on his desk, part of an ongoing bet with an employee.