The Red Sox have fired head coach Alex Cora and five members of his staff — bench coach Ramón Vázquez, third-base coach Kyle Hudson, hitting coach Peter Fatse, assistant hitting coach Dillon Lawson and hitting strategy coach Joe Cronin — after, ironically, a 17-1 win over the Orioles — the largest margin of victory ever for a manager's last game, under any circumstance. The win still leaves the Red Sox an American League-worst 10-17 and came after a 3-7 stretch that included a three-game sweep by the archrival Yankees at Fenway, in which they were outscored 12-3.
Triple-A Worcester manager Chad Tracy will serve as the interim manager and he brings his hitting coach, Collin Hetzler, to serve in that capacity on an interim basis. Double-A Portland manager was named interim third-base coach.
The team was publicly embarrassed Friday night after the Orioles went viral with a scoreboard message after hitting six home runs in the first five innings of the game:
My take: Have to beat the Yankees. It's that simple. Cora could go 13-149 if the 13 wins were over the Yankees. Getting swept by them at home as part of an overall poor start to the season? He should have packed up his office that day. I'm unsure how the Red Sox think the team will be better without Cora and his experienced staff, uprooting their minor-league development by taking the managers for both their Triple-A and Double-A teams. One imagines an experienced MLB manager will soon be hired on a permanent basis. David Ross and Skip Schumaker come to mind. Also, former Red Sox fan-favorite Jason Varitek is part of the organization, though it was announced Saturday he was being reassigned from his Game Planning and Run Prevention Coach position as part of the broader shake-up.
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Red Sox fire Cora, five staff
The Red Sox have fired head coach Alex Cora and five members of his staff — bench coach Ramón Vázquez, third-base coach Kyle Hudson, hitting coach Peter Fatse, assistant hitting coach Dillon Lawson and hitting strategy coach Joe Cronin — after, ironically, a 17-1 win over the Orioles — the largest margin of victory ever for a manager's last game, under any circumstance. The win still leaves the Red Sox an American League-worst 10-17 and came after a 3-7 stretch that included a three-game sweep by the archrival Yankees at Fenway, in which they were outscored 12-3.
Triple-A Worcester manager Chad Tracy will serve as the interim manager and he brings his hitting coach, Collin Hetzler, to serve in that capacity on an interim basis. Double-A Portland manager was named interim third-base coach.
The team was publicly embarrassed Friday night after the Orioles went viral with a scoreboard message after hitting six home runs in the first five innings of the game:
My take: Have to beat the Yankees. It's that simple. Cora could go 13-149 if the 13 wins were over the Yankees. Getting swept by them at home as part of an overall poor start to the season? He should have packed up his office that day. I'm unsure how the Red Sox think the team will be better without Cora and his experienced staff, uprooting their minor-league development by taking the managers for both their Triple-A and Double-A teams. One imagines an experienced MLB manager will soon be hired on a permanent basis. David Ross and Skip Schumaker come to mind. Also, former Red Sox fan-favorite Jason Varitek is part of the organization, though it was announced Saturday he was being reassigned from his Game Planning and Run Prevention Coach position as part of the broader shake-up.
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