Alex Cora is back with the Boston Red Sox. After the Boston Red Sox had one of their worst seasons in history, Red Sox brass decided that bringing back Cora after his 1 year suspension would be best for the team. A lot of the Sox looked lost last year including Rafael Devers, Andrew Benintendi and JD Martinez. Hopefully they will respond to Cora now that he's back at the helm. If Eduardo Rodriguez recovers from Covid, he'll be the one to benefit the most since Cora coaxed 19 wins out of him in 2019. Ron Roenicke was put into an impossible situation but he made a lot of mistakes that Cora wasn't known to make. A good manager can steal you a few wins a bad manager can't, so in the era of the second wild card, the Sox are gonna need that element. Cora guided the Sox to 108 wins and the World Series in 2018 and even though the Sox suffered a major hangover in 2019, those days are the glory days compared to the 2020 season we all just suffered through.
Its inevitable that a lot of people, including some in Boston, are going to whine about this. Essentially Cora was suspended for his involvement with the 2017 Astros than anything he did in Boston, but that doesn't matter to the baseball purists. They're gonna whine and complain that the Sox hired a "cheater" but Michael Chavis speaks for a lot of people in this picture below how we all feel about the whiners. Welcome back Cora.
