00:00Yesterday, Craig, around 7 p.m., Jeff Passon puts out the tweet.
00:04The Boston Red Sox fired manager Alex Cora, hitting coach Peter Fatsy,
00:08bench coach Ramon Vasquez, and game planning coach Jason Veritek.
00:11Now, typically, Craig, like, we do see changes in Major League Baseball,
00:15usually later in the season, but it might be a bench coach you change.
00:19It might be a third base coach you change.
00:20It might be the manager you change.
00:22Cleaning house in Major League Baseball in April, Craig.
00:25What did you hear?
00:26I mean, my goodness, what a shockwave last night.
00:28Yeah, my guess is there's a lot more that will come out over the next, you know, week or two.
00:35Hopefully no pictures involved, but a story for another day.
00:38But what I would say is Alex Cora, at least the narrative right now,
00:44seems to be that he will be fine and he will get another job and he's a really good manager.
00:50And, you know, the initial sentiment is that, and I would feel that way as well.
00:54But look, what's going to happen inevitably when these things happen
00:58is we will have some leaks as to some things that were happening with the team
01:02and in the clubhouse and some relationships maybe that were strained.
01:05And I don't know this to be fact because I don't cover the Red Sox, Donnie.
01:08But when this stuff happens, it just doesn't die in 24 hours.
01:12It keeps going on.
01:13So, look, Boston, they have a lot of work to do ahead of them.
01:18There's no question that, in my opinion,
01:20that the roster was flawed at the beginning of the season.
01:23There's no question.
01:24And I think really, you know, not getting Alex Bregman back was a big key for me.
01:28But how does that have to do with anything with Alex Cora did?
01:30I really don't know.
01:32But heading in another direction and now there's no doubt, Donnie,
01:36that Craig Breslow, who's the president of baseball operations,
01:39is going to have a lot of pressure on him the rest of the season
01:43because this is what happens is that you start throwing stones
01:47and then all of a sudden there's no stones left to throw.
01:49And I think Breslow's going to have to get this fixed pretty quickly.
01:52You trade Devers last year.
01:54You enter the season seven or eight games under .500.
01:57Although they did have a good offensive showing on Saturday,
02:01they're going to need to have similar performances, I think,
02:04for anybody to save their job.
02:05That's at the end of the season.
02:06I wouldn't anticipate any more now.
02:08There's really nobody left to fire, right?
02:10It's unbelievable because when you look at it, and again,
02:13sometimes it gets exacerbated here by when you're like,
02:15okay, we're going to play the Yankees.
02:16They don't come up well.
02:17That's our rival.
02:17That's embarrassing as a start.
02:19But if we can put it back up, that underdog MLB tweet.
02:22Again, we see it in all sports.
02:24Head coach in basketball gets fired.
02:26Assistant takes his spot here.
02:27The NFL, okay, coaching gets relieved in December.
02:30Assistant coach is going to step up.
02:31And it's almost like, Craig, where do we go from here?
02:33Manager, hitting coach, bench coach, assistant hitting coach,
02:36third base coach, hitting strategy, and game planner here.
02:40Was there something like the fish rots from the head, as they like to say?
02:44I've never seen anything like this.
02:46And maybe over the course of the season, you might dump all of those guys.
02:48But all at once.
02:49It's almost like a line change in hockey, Craig.
02:52What happens now that nobody's there to manage the team?
02:55And who gets in there by today?
02:58Yeah.
02:58Well, Chad Tracy, I guess, is the interim manager at this point.
03:01So he will take over.
03:02And basically, I would guess, take over for the rest of the season.
03:06But some of these questions that have to be asked, Donnie, would be, what did you think
03:11a month ago, Donnie, right?
03:13Like right before the season started, did you think that these coaches were the answer to
03:18your season?
03:19Because if not, why did you wait all offseason to make a change like this?
03:23So, look, it's very complex.
03:25The Red Sox have been sort of shifting around different general managers through the years.
03:31I thought that they had a really good one, honestly, in Heim Bloom.
03:35And a lot of these young players who are coming up now through the Red Sox system were players
03:39that essentially were drafted under his watch.
03:41So now he'll take over St. Louis.
03:43You see the Cardinals have some better results.
03:45But we'll have to wait and see, is there in a transition or a rebuild as well?
03:49And again, this is no diamond on Breslau.
03:52I think that they brought him in with all the right intentions.
03:56But yeah, I mean, he is now going to have to, I think, not only turn this around this
04:01year to some degree, Donnie, but we'll have to win next year as well.
04:05Or else the Red Sox could be right back in the same position that they were, looking for
04:09a new president, looking for a new manager as well.
04:12And as far as Cora's future is concerned, I don't think there's probably a long waiting
04:17period for him.
04:18My guess is if he wants to manage next year, he can.
04:21But that's always the initial reaction.
04:24I remember Donnie when Skip Schumacher, remember how great he was with Miami and then had a
04:29tough year.
04:30And everyone said, oh, well, he'll manage anywhere he wants the next year.
04:33He had to wait a couple of years before finding the right landing spot in Texas.
04:36So my prediction is Cora doesn't jump back in this year.
04:41Maybe he doesn't jump back in the next year.
04:43And again, he's getting paid anyway, so it really doesn't matter.
04:45And then waits for the right landing spot for him as well.
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