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The manager of the Boston Red Sox, Alex Cora, told reporters on Tuesday that he doesn’t plan to stay in baseball for another ten years.
Alex Cora, manager of the Boston Red Sox, talked to the media on Tuesday to start spring training. He finally talked about his future with the team in more detail.
A question was asked about Cora’s long time in the game. He became manager for the first time in Boston in 2018. The former player, who is 48 years old, was honest about his plans and even gave the Red Sox a realistic time frame for how long he could stay.
“I’m not going to manage 10 more years; I’ll tell you that,” she said. “I don’t see myself being like Tito (Francona) or Tony (LaRussa), you know? I got two boys, and I got a girl who’s a junior in college. So there’s more in life than baseball, to be honest with you.”
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Cora said he sees himself doing “other stuff” in baseball, just with his family and back home in Puerto Rico.
After playing for six MLB teams from 1998 to 2011, Cora got into teaching in 2016. Cora was a bench coach for the Houston Astros for two seasons, winning a World Series in his first year with the club.
Cora led the Red Sox to a World Series title of their own in 2018, but he was suspended for 2020 due to a sign-stealing scandal during his time with the Astros. Upon his return to Boston in 2021, Cora quickly led the team back to the ALCS.
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The past two seasons haven’t gone quite as smoothly for Boston, however, as they came last in the AL East in both 2022 and 2023.
Cora’s frustrations were routinely on display through the Sox’s struggles, which he said led to a strong talk from his mother last fall. The manager owned his mistakes while also attributing them to some mixture of complacency and tiredness.
“I read (Pep) Guardiola’s book, and he said that when you spend more than five or six years in one place, it can take a toll on you,” Cora said. “And I think I got hit last year with that. I’m glad that I recognize that, and I think the pictures and movies recognize that.”
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Cora rattled off the sources of his building stress, saying that he wasn’t enjoying his time in the dugout as much as he should have.
“It’s not easy, man,” Cora said. “Dealing with the media, dealing with players, the front office, the pressure of winning—it’s not easy. It should be fun, and sometimes it’s not.”
Cora is now facing the final year of his contract with the Red Sox. He said in his press conference, as clearly as possible, that it didn’t bother him and that Boston remains his home.
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Given his other comments, though, it remains to be seen just how much longer Cora wants to don a Red Sox uniform.
