Shank (finally or otherwise) notices cheating in baseball, and makes
the Red Sox manager squirm and evade:
Picked-up pieces while wishing anyone loved me as much as Bill Belichick loves Cam Newton …
▪ Alex Cora is one fine big league manager. It’s great for the Red Sox that he’s back, and New England is excited with the team’s fast start.
We know all about Cora’s baggage. Major League Baseball suspended him for a year for his role in the world champion Houston Astros’ cheating scandal of 2017. Cora’s 2018 world champion Red Sox also were caught and punished by MLB for illegal sign stealing (video room shenanigans).
Now that MLB is cracking down on pitchers for using illegal sticky substances to make the baseball spin, I would think Cora has put his hurlers on notice. More than anyone in the game, Cora can ill afford to be associated with another cheating scandal.
When Cora was asked about this issue at a group Zoom session Wednesday, he said, “I don’t think it’s in the manager’s hands. It think it’s more the players.”
Preemptive throwing of players under the bus, or just deciding not to take that bullet?
Here we have the Sox' general manager getting the 'ol Goodyear treatment:
I spoke with Cora one-on-one Friday morning to ask about recommendations he may have made to his pitchers.
“We had a meeting in spring training and Chaim [Bloom] addressed that part,” Cora answered.
Given his personal history, does Cora feel any need to be particularly vigilant on the issue?
“Um … like I said, Chaim talked about it in spring training,” said Cora. “He was very open about it, so now we have to wait for the memo or whatever they are going to do and then we’ll address it again.”
Let me also note - Felger referenced this column in the 2:00 hour of today's Felger & Mazz show. One hand washes the other...
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