{"id":117328,"date":"2026-04-26T04:56:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/red-sox-fire-cora-and-restructure-coaching-staff-due-to-poor-start\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T04:56:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:56:34","slug":"red-sox-fire-cora-and-restructure-coaching-staff-due-to-poor-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/red-sox-fire-cora-and-restructure-coaching-staff-due-to-poor-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox Fire Cora and Restructure Coaching Staff Due to Poor Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Red Sox Remove Alex Cora and Coaching Staff After Unexpected Start<\/h2>\n\nBOSTON \u2013 The Boston Red Sox announced this Saturday significant changes in their technical structure, including the dismissal of manager Alex Cora and several key members of his coaching staff. The decision comes after a start of the season below expectations in Major League Baseball.\n\nAlong with Cora, batting coach Peter Fatse, third base coach Kyle Hudson, bench coach Ram\u00f3n V\u00e1zquez, assistant batting coach Dillon Lawson, and offensive strategist Joe Cronin were also relieved of their duties. This measure is part of an internal restructuring of the team.\n\nThe organization also reported that Jason Varitek, who worked in game planning and run prevention, will be relocated to a new role within the team, the details of which will be announced soon.\n\nTo fill the vacant position, the team appointed Chad Tracy as interim manager. Tracy, 40, had been serving as manager of the Triple-A Worcester team since 2022.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We deeply appreciate everything Alex has meant to this organization, on and off the field. These decisions are never easy, especially because of their impact on the team and the city.<\/p><cite>John Henry, club principal owner<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe principal owner of the club, John Henry, highlighted Cora&#8217;s legacy, recalling that he led the team to victory in the 2018 World Series, one of the most successful seasons in the franchise&#8217;s history.\n\nThe decision was made despite the fact that Boston recently broke a losing streak with a resounding victory over the Orioles. However, the team remains in second-to-last place in the American League with a record of 10-17.\n\nAfter a promising previous campaign, expectations were high for the current season. However, a complicated start set the course for a team that failed to find consistency in the first weeks of the schedule.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Sox Remove Alex Cora and Coaching Staff After Unexpected Start BOSTON \u2013 The Boston Red Sox announced this Saturday significant changes in their technical structure, including the dismissal of manager Alex Cora and several key members of his coaching staff. The decision comes after a start of the season below expectations in Major League [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[2473,88,6492,100],"class_list":{"0":"post-117328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-alex-cora","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-dismissal","11":"tag-red-sox"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}