{"id":683847,"date":"2026-04-27T04:27:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/683847\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T04:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:27:19","slug":"red-sox-management-addresses-firing-manager-alex-cora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/683847\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox management addresses firing manager Alex Cora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tMANCHESTER, N.H. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Boston Red Sox fired manager Alex Cora on Saturday, a move team president Sam Kennedy and chief baseball officer Craig Breslow said was made before the team&#8217;s 17-1 win. <\/p>\n<p>Breslow said there was no power struggle between Cora, his coaching staff and his front office. <\/p>\n<p>Kennedy said the decision to fire Cora was primarily Breslow&#8217;s. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hired Craig to be our chief baseball officer. He runs the baseball operation. We are a front-office-led baseball operation,&#8221; Kennedy said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ultimately, this is the big leagues, and it is a results-oriented business, and we need to win more games, we need to perform better,&#8221; Breslow said.  <\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/wmurapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download the free WMUR app to get updates on the go<\/a> &lt;&lt;<\/p>\n<p>Some veteran Red Sox players were not happy with the move, including Trevor Story.<\/p>\n<p>Story said some of the best coaches in the game got let go and that he needs to have more conversations with the front office. <\/p>\n<p>Chad Tracy, the manager at Triple-A Worcester, has taken over on an interim basis. <\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox beat the Baltimore Orioles 5-3 on Sunday in Tracy&#8217;s managerial debut. <\/p>\n<p>Tracy said he has mixed emotions about taking over the team.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m towing that line of sitting here with all of you in this moment, but also acknowledge the relationship with some of the people that are no longer here was strong,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So excited, but also honoring the people that were before me that were mentors to me.&#8221;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANCHESTER, N.H. \u2014 The Boston Red Sox fired manager Alex Cora on Saturday, a move team president Sam&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[858,36031,5,26492,43998,141,48,2542,37659,15690,86494,13772,6930,8697,18397,9703,7285,7857,61171,4,86496,89,86495,2543,5923,670,14764,2570,2022],"class_list":["post-683847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boston-red-sox","tag-alex-cora","tag-app","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-operation","tag-big-league","tag-boston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-bostonredsox","tag-breslow","tag-chad-tracy","tag-chief-baseball-officer","tag-coaching-staff","tag-craig-breslow","tag-decision","tag-download","tag-fired","tag-front-office","tag-kennedy","tag-manager-alex-cora","tag-mlb","tag-power-struggle","tag-red-sox","tag-red-sox-management-address","tag-redsox","tag-sam-kennedy","tag-saturday","tag-triple-a-worcester","tag-update","tag-win"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116474782898932951","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}