anonymous poll<\/a> of MLB players, asking questions about whom they feel is the most overrated, the player they least like to face, and everything in between.<\/p>\nOne of the questions posed in this year\u2019s survey was, \u201cWhich manager, aside from your own, would you most like to play\u00a0for?\u201d<\/p>\n
The question received 121 responses, and Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora was seventh on the list, receiving six votes.<\/p>\n
There are a variety of reasons why players would like to play for Cora. The Red Sox manager is bilingual, which allows him to communicate effectively with most of his team. He\u2019s also a former player, but was never a star. He knows the grind of being a major leaguer and what it takes to try to stick in the league.<\/p>\n
Former Red Sox and current Cincinnati Reds manager Terry Francona was second on the list as well, only trailing the Texas Rangers\u2019 Bruce Bochy in votes. One player described Francona as \u201ca young grandpa.\u201d <\/p>\n
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The Red Sox organization as a whole was near the top of the list for teams with good reputations among players. Fifteen players responded that the organization had a good reputation, while zero responded that they had a bad one. For comparison, the New York Yankees received 40 \u201cgood\u201d responses and three \u201cbad\u201d responses.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Jarren Duran and Aroldis Chapman were also mentioned in the survey under the \u201cplayer you most like to watch\u201d and \u201cpitcher you\u2019d least like to face\u201d categories, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Each year, The Athletic conducts an anonymous poll of MLB players, asking questions about whom they feel is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[858,5,141,48,2542,4,89,2543,1175],"class_list":{"0":"post-97827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-red-sox","8":"tag-alex-cora","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-boston","11":"tag-boston-red-sox","12":"tag-bostonredsox","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-red-sox","15":"tag-redsox","16":"tag-terry-francona"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114669304496612638","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97827","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=97827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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