BOSTON — Alex Cora will now not should answer questions on whether he can envision managing the Yankees — or another team — next season.
If there have been clubs that were eyeing the Red Sox skipper, who was set to hit free agency after this season, those discussions are over.
Cora, newly awarded a three-year extension reportedly value $21.75 million this week, can sidestep queries about his future.
“I feel in the long run, people forgot about how much [my family and I] love this and the way great this place is, whatever the last two years,” Cora said Friday before his Red Sox beat the Yankees, 9-7. “This can be a dream job, to be honest with you. I’ve fallen in love with the town.”
Craig Counsell allowing his Brewers contract to run out last yr and hitting the open market, where he wound up signing with the Cubs for five years and $40 million, reshaped the managerial market.
Cora, seen as top-of-the-line in the sport, could have used his leverage similarly to Counsell and seen whether the Yankees might need been willing to switch Aaron Boone at season’s end — and after all seen what contracts another team might offer.
As a substitute, he ended up using his leverage to earn what a smiling Boone called “a fairly good deal.”
“Joyful for him,” Boone said. “Obviously he’s a giant a part of that organization and what they do. One among the sport’s really great managers. I’m comfortable for him, much deserved.
“He’s paying next time I see him.”
The cash definitely mattered to Cora, but he said the 2 biggest aspects were winning and where his family could be comfortable.
His family is comfortable in Boston, and he hopes the winning — he cited players he likes each in the large leagues and within the minors with the Red Sox — will follow.
Cora and his family are comfortable with the Red Sox largely since the Red Sox welcomed them back.
He was fired in January 2020 and suspended for the following season following the league’s investigation of the Astros’ cheating scheme in 2017, when Cora was bench coach and located to be one in every of the masterminds of the sign-stealing system.
He was back leading the Boston clubhouse in 2021.
“These people, they gave me a probability in 2017,” said Cora, who was originally hired in October 2017. “After the scandal and the suspension, they gave me a probability to return to the team. And that’s something that was very vital in our decision.”
BOSTON — Alex Cora will now not should answer questions on whether he can envision managing the Yankees — or another team — next season.
If there have been clubs that were eyeing the Red Sox skipper, who was set to hit free agency after this season, those discussions are over.
Cora, newly awarded a three-year extension reportedly value $21.75 million this week, can sidestep queries about his future.
“I feel in the long run, people forgot about how much [my family and I] love this and the way great this place is, whatever the last two years,” Cora said Friday before his Red Sox beat the Yankees, 9-7. “This can be a dream job, to be honest with you. I’ve fallen in love with the town.”
Craig Counsell allowing his Brewers contract to run out last yr and hitting the open market, where he wound up signing with the Cubs for five years and $40 million, reshaped the managerial market.
Cora, seen as top-of-the-line in the sport, could have used his leverage similarly to Counsell and seen whether the Yankees might need been willing to switch Aaron Boone at season’s end — and after all seen what contracts another team might offer.
As a substitute, he ended up using his leverage to earn what a smiling Boone called “a fairly good deal.”
“Joyful for him,” Boone said. “Obviously he’s a giant a part of that organization and what they do. One among the sport’s really great managers. I’m comfortable for him, much deserved.
“He’s paying next time I see him.”
The cash definitely mattered to Cora, but he said the 2 biggest aspects were winning and where his family could be comfortable.
His family is comfortable in Boston, and he hopes the winning — he cited players he likes each in the large leagues and within the minors with the Red Sox — will follow.
Cora and his family are comfortable with the Red Sox largely since the Red Sox welcomed them back.
He was fired in January 2020 and suspended for the following season following the league’s investigation of the Astros’ cheating scheme in 2017, when Cora was bench coach and located to be one in every of the masterminds of the sign-stealing system.
He was back leading the Boston clubhouse in 2021.
“These people, they gave me a probability in 2017,” said Cora, who was originally hired in October 2017. “After the scandal and the suspension, they gave me a probability to return to the team. And that’s something that was very vital in our decision.”
