The Mets will not only have to see Joe Girardi 19 games a year as Phillies manager, but also will now witness how the runner-up for their GM job handles a big-market team.

Rays VP of baseball operations Chaim Bloom finalized a contract Friday with the Red Sox to be their chief of baseball operations. How much did Boston want him? Bloom was the only person interviewed for the job, though president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski was fired on Sept. 8.

Brodie Van Wagenen beat out Bloom to succeed Sandy Alderson last offseason.

By interviewing with the Mets and now agreeing with the Red Sox, Bloom has shown he wants to run his own baseball operations and do so for an organization that greatly outspends Tampa Bay. And while Bloom will be compared to Van Wagenen/Mets, he could provide a greater bane to the Rays and Yankees.

Tampa Bay has been run as a tightly knit collective with GM Erik Neander and Bloom as the top baseball operations officers. That group has been widely hailed for keeping the Rays regularly competitive and innovative on a shoestring. The Rays finished ahead of the Red Sox in 2011, ’15 and ’19, and Boston’s top baseball official either quit or was fired afterward each time.

Meanwhile, the Yankees long have admired the work of the Rays front office. Even while Boston was winning the World Series in 2018, the Yankees thought the Red Sox had done much to damage their near-term future to do so by trading prospects and swelling long-term payroll. Bloom theoretically will apply small-market ingenuity and the Rays’ forward thinking with the Red Sox’s payroll might.