Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred made it painfully clear he has the goods on Alex Cora and even the lowlife Astros knew they had no choice but to fire manager A.J. Hinch.
This, of course, leaves the Red Sox with an easy call.
No point in keeping manager Alex Cora, mastermind behind the Astros’ garbage-can lid scandal and, allegedly, the still-being-investigated Red Sox replay-room sign decoding, when the commissioner has shown such on-point strength in hammering cheaters.
The commish slapped Hinch and Astros GM Jeff Luhnow each with one-year suspensions. Both have subsequently been fired by the club.
There is no reason whatsoever to believe he won’t be at least that harsh on Cora, a World Champion rule-breaker in multiple uniforms.
Cora’s a likable guy, which is part of why he’s so popular with ownership, management, the players, the fans and the media. All of that is irrelevant in terms of what the Red Sox need to do, the sooner the better.
Keeping a manager who has been suspended for a lengthy stretch is an invitation to divide a clubhouse and the rest of the organization. If the interim manager doesn’t write your name on the lineup card, you find the other players in the clubhouse who aren’t playing either and start stoking their fires about how much better Cora was than the interim and tell them to hang in there because once Alex is back everything will be good again.
Based on the waffling of the messaging regarding whether this offseason is devoted to building a better roster or trimming payroll, the Red Sox aren’t the most decisive organization in the Major Leagues.
If the Sox hem and haw now and wait for MLB to hand down its decision, the statement they would be making would be that they don’t have a problem with cheating. They just have a problem with getting caught cheating.
You look at the harshness of MLB’s words in relation to Cora and it’s obvious the commissioner’s in no mood to cut him slack.
The Sox need to negotiate a buyout with Cora, release a statement that he has been fired and assign Ron Roenicke as interim manager. Roenicke, 63, managed the Brewers from 2011 through 2015 and posted a 342-331 record. Interim doesn’t mean he’ll be in the position through the end of spring training, or even at the start of it. That’s a call Vice President of Baseball Operations Chaim Bloom needs to make.
Cora signed a contract extension Nov. 14, 2018, through the 2021 season with a club option for 2022.
Cora, 44, was the fifth manager in history to take his team to a World Series title in his first season on the job. He was on top of the baseball world. The Sox won 108 games in the regular season and went 11-3 in the postseason en route to a World Series title.
In 2019, the Red Sox pitching staff collapsed, their win total tumbled to 84 games. Still, the Sox played hard, a sign Cora had not lost the team.
He may not have lost the team, but there’s no way he avoids losing his job. Baseball is taking a stand against cheating and Cora has become the face of sign-stealing.
It’ll be shocking if Cora manages another game for the Red Sox.
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