This sure feels like Alex Cora’s last season with the Red Sox, and other thoughtsRead on for more reasons Cora won't be here next year, and other thoughts!
Picked-up pieces while wondering if Brad Stevens has ever smoked a cigar …
▪ Enjoy these final months of Alex Cora managing the Red Sox. There is nothing to indicate he’ll be back next year.
In his sixth season as skipper of the Local Nine, Cora (along with Cleveland’s Stephen Vogt) would be one of my top candidates for Manager of the Year in the American League. After a winter and spring that were anything but “full throttle,” Cora has the depleted Sox over .500 and very much in the running for a diluted wild-card spot. Nobody covets the “illusion of contention” more than Red Sox management, and Cora has his ragtag bunch in the hunt.
He is the face of the franchise and the best thing the Sox have going for them.
And though he won’t come out and say it, he’s also gone. In my opinion.
Cora is in the final year of his contract. No team serious about keeping its manager would allow this. Cora’s value around the game is at an all-time high. He’s young (48), smart, bilingual, and great at team-building with today’s players.
Sunday, June 30, 2024
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Shank thinks it's the last season for Alex Cora as skipper of the Boston Red Sox:
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I agree that Cora deserves at least some consideration for AL MOY. This team is five games above .500 heading into the last three months of the season; that's pretty good when you consider that most fans who still bother to watch are unfamiliar with half the starters every night. Dom Smith? Bailey Horn?
I also agree that Cora has to be frustrated with the direction, or lack thereof, that the organization seems to be taking. I don't know what Craig Breslow and the front office have planned for 2025 and beyond, but the lack of activity last winter seems to suggest that they are sliding into the perennial category of "also-rans." Should we expect them to win the World Series every year? No, but they should be more or less a lock for a playoff spot, given that there are six spots and 15 teams in each league, meaning that better than one-third of the teams will be October-bound.
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