OPINION: Red Sox Manager's Days May Be Numbered

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The 2024 Red Sox season has been a sloppy run. With an injury-prone younger team and a lack of money spent on trades when it mattered this season, the BoSox got left behind. Alex Cora doesn't seem too upset about being officially eliminated after Wednesday's game. Although the clubhouse may be quiet, the season's tragic end has Boston left with some big decisions for next year. Will ownership cut Cora loose before another season comes and goes in Boston?

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Red Sox Kiss 2024 Goodbye

This year the Red Sox have had a losing record at home and a pitching staff that one could cry over. Their offense has been shaky but was strong enough to keep their playoff hopes alive until the bitter end. The long list of injuries this season has deemed the Red Sox unstable as a team and inconsistent. With a last rally over the last week against the Twins, it just wasn't in the cards for them this year. Boston absolutely blew it.

Alex Cora doesn't seem too bothered as if he knew didn't even believe in his team to rally themselves to a wildcard position. He has yet to make a statement to the players about their elimination this season, mentioning that the clubhouse is quiet. Cora was recently ejected from the doubleheader last week against the Twins, while he wasn't leading the team it appeared they gathered some momentum to go on to win. While letting the team stew in their season's demise may seem like Cora's best option, he will see the backlash from the fans and his players.

Alex Cora May Be Done

With Craig Breslow and John Henry joining forces like Boston's newest villains, Alex Cora may be next on the chopping block. His disenchanting behavior in September and lack of initiative to find meaningful motivation may be his last moves for Boston. John Henry thinks he is smart enough to play such a sophisticated game like chess but he in reality plays checkers with the Boston Red Sox.

Cutting costs and corners seems to be the motto for Henry with Breslow as his newest sidekick. Alex Cora's disrespectful taunting and underwhelming performance will be looked over with a fine tooth comb. The idea that the leader of the team, Cora, has said nothing to the players after being eliminated isn't a good look for him.

Now facing the downfall of his career, in Wednesday's press release, Cora was lackluster and per usual refused to take a leadership role. His enthusiasm over the last two weeks has dried and he knows this is a pivotal point for his career. Cora's behavior has the looks of a subtle bow out to the team. The Red Sox continue to fall under his regime, ownership will want to examine their returns and cut the fat where things aren't progressing.

'I Want It To Hurt'-Red Sox CBO

Breslow commented to MLB on Wednesday's game, “I think we play these games to make it to the postseason, win the World Series,” said Breslow. “So falling short of that, it should be a disappointment. I want it to be a disappointment. I want it to hurt. That doesn't mean we can't find things that we did well, or things that are encouraging or reasons for optimism, but at the end of the day, you play these seasons to win games and get to the postseason. We are … looking at a season where that didn't happen.”

This may be the beginning of the end for Alex Cora's career in Boston. The fans, begging Henry to further examine Cora's effects on the team, have been in support of Cora's move out of Boston well before this season started. With a final rally in September for Boston that ended in playoff elimination, Cora had a chance to hold on. Looking back over the years Cora has coached the Red Sox, it has been on paper a .583 win percentage, but overall has felt like a failure. His best season was his first in 2018 ending the season with 108-53 (.667W%).

Core In Boston Is Changing

If the Red Sox want to have a shot at the playoffs next season there is a lot of heavy lifting that needs to get done before spring. What John Henery and Craig Breslow do together this winter will be foreshadowing for the year ahead, although a new contract was signed this year, Cora is walking on thin ice. Red Sox fans are hoping ownership will miraculously change and spend money on already developed players and that will solve everything. It won't. The core of the clubhouse was thrown out last week with major front office cuts, this is just the beginning of the tidal wave of changes in Fenway.

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Article originally written by C. Januszewski