Alex Cora becomes the new manager of the Boston Red Sox. This was announced by the franchise on Sunday. The current Houston Astros Bench Coach, who will be playing against the Dodgers for the World Series with the team from Tuesday, will be taking over an MLB team for the first time in his career from 2018. SPOX will be showing the first four games of the World Series from Tuesday in LIVESTREAM FOR FREE.
Cora, who will sign a three-year contract in Beantown for 2021 with a club option, will be the 47th member of the club’s club team. Redox history manager. The Red Sox had reached the playoffs this season, but lost to the Astros in the Division Series. Manager John Farrell was then dismissed. Cora was one of three candidates for Red Sox President of Baseball Operations Dave Dombrowski.
“I’m very honored to be appointed manager of the Boston Red Sox and I want to thank Dave, John Henry, Tom Werner and Sam Kennedy for giving me this opportunity,”said Cora in a press release,”returning to the Red Sox and Boston is a dream come true for me and my family,” he won the World Series with the Red Sox 2007 as a player.
“We were very impressed with our interview with Alex,” said Dombrowski,”He knew his way around, has a lot of passion and deserves this opportunity,” and Cora is also well placed to take advantage of all the opportunities offered by analytics, i. e. new statistics, in today’s game,”and he is bilingual, was very important to our club.
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