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* Text Features The Boston Red Sox Wednesday, November 11, 2020 * The Boston Globe Alex Cora is back as Red Sox manager, and he’s sorry: ‘I got my penalty and I served it' Julian McWilliams Alex Cora admitted that his heart was racing Tuesday afternoon at Fenway Park. It was the first time in nearly a year that Cora was in the public eye. His season-long suspension as a result of his involvement in the Houston Astros' 2017 sign-stealing scandal stripped him of his managerial position with the Red Sox for the ’20 season. Yet Tuesday marked his reintroduction as the Sox' manager and his reintroduction to baseball, something Cora didn’t expect to happen so soon. And for good reason. The scandal left a damaging mark on baseball, the Sox organization, and, most importantly, Cora’s family. “I want to apologize,” said Cora on bringing negative attention to his family. “I deserved what happened this year. It was something that I’m not proud of, but at the end I got my penalty and I served it. I want to apologize to the organization, putting them in such a tough spot coming into the season. I never thought I would be in that situation but I was. As a leader, as a person who enjoys the game and loves to manage, I put this organization in a tough spot, and for that I’m sorry.” Cora said he’s not treating this as a “comeback story.” Instead, the Sox manager intimated that he will use this as a situation to make people better. Chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom reached out to Cora a few days after the World Series. First with a text, then a phone call. The conversations got deeper and ultimately Bloom made the decision to bring Cora back onboard. “I knew the strengths that he had,” Bloom said. “Also, over the course of the year in observing the organization I got to learn about things that would have been areas of improvement for him had he stayed with us. When we started the process after the season, we spent a lot of time coming up with a list of candidates. We vetted them very thoroughly. I knew that I wanted to have some type of conversation with Alex when it was OK to do so. At the end of the day, I thought he was the right choice to lead us forward.” For Bloom, the vetting process was meticulous. Bloom went into his meeting with Cora telling himself that it was paramount that he ask all the questions on his mind, considering the seriousness of the scandal. “We all went through something,” Bloom said. “And it was a lot to process. I told myself that I needed to address everything that I needed to address. I tried to stay in the moment with that and then process it after the fact.” Cora is aware of the backlash that’s ahead, but said he’s ready for it. “I know it’s going to be tough in certain places, but I understand,” Cora added. The 2018 Red Sox underwent their own sign-stealing investigation. The findings weren’t as abhorrent as the Astros' cheating scandal, but the Sox were still punished. The team lost its second-round pick and J.T. Watkins, the Sox' video replay operator, was suspended for a season. Cora, on the other hand, was exonerated. What did Cora learn from that process? “If you read the report,” Cora explained, “as a leader, as a person who is running the clubhouse and the dugout, we need to avoid the gray areas. I think that’s the most important thing.” Cora stated that he didn’t bring the operation from Houston over to the Sox because he didn’t feel like the team needed to do something like that. Additionally, Cora said he and the organization had conversations surrounding sign-stealing in baseball in the spring of ’18. At the time, MLB started to get word that these type of cheating schemes were taking place in the game. Cora ultimately thought it wouldn’t be worth the risk. Cora is inheriting a completely different roster than the one he left behind. Mookie Betts is in Los Angeles, as is David Price. Chris Sale is recovering from Tommy John surgery. The team still has some of its core players left — Rafael Devers, J.D. Martinez, and Xander Bogaerts, to name a few — but the overall talent isn’t as strong as it once was. Furthermore, Dave Dombrowski is no longer running the show. It’s Bloom, who takes more of an analytical approach than the old-school Dombrowski. But Cora doesn’t see the use of a team that relies heavily on data as an impediment to his managerial approach. “I love the information,” Cora said. “I love to go into a game prepared the best I can. I don’t think there’s a script. I feel managers now have more information given to you. You prepare your game based on that information and, obviously, with the scouting reports and what you feel makes sense.” Alex Cora’s relationship with Chaim Bloom will determine whether it works out for Red Sox Peter Abraham Before any questions could be asked on Tuesday, Alex Cora apologized for his role in helping the Houston Astros cheat in 2017. That was expected, of course, and Cora hit his marks as he perched on a stool adjacent to home plate at Fenway Park and addressed reporters via a video feed on a November day fit for nine innings. Cora said he deserved his season-long suspension, never should have put the Red Sox in the awkward position he did and knows the stain of what he did will follow him throughout the rest of his career. This is no great comeback story, Cora insisted, and he understands how fortunate he is the Sox granted him another opportunity to manage. “I was humbled by this whole situation,” Cora said. That Cora admitted to that emotion, being humbled, was notable because it’s not something you’d normally associate with him. Cora has plowed through his baseball career fueled by confidence, if not swagger. It’s what enabled him to become a star at the University of Miami, play parts of 14 seasons in the majors, succeed as an analyst at ESPN and win the World Series in his first season managing the Sox. Even when the Sox fell into third place in 2019, Cora’s light never dimmed. He’s one of those people who charges ahead convinced he’s right, especially in matters related to baseball. There’s an audacity that serves Cora well. It’s also what burned him in Houston. The force of Cora’s personality, his passion for the game, was just what the Sox needed the first time around. But it’s no sure thing it will be again. Chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom certainly had to be convinced. He said it took some “intense conversations” to arrive at the decision and there were a lot of questions he needed to have sufficiently answered. “This is a big deal what happened [in Houston]. It was an event that took its toll on all of us,” Bloom said. Bloom is a believer in collaborative effort based on his experience with the Tampa Bay Rays. But he is now paid to lead baseball operations, not be part of a chorus. Forming an in-season alliance with Cora will be much different than with grandfatherly Ron Roenicke. Rays manager Kevin Cash pulled Blake Snell out of Game 6 of the World Series last month because the timing had been agreed to beforehand. Once the leadoff hitter came up a third time, Snell was done. That he was working on a two-hit shutout and had thrown only 73 pitches against the Dodgers didn’t matter. Would Cora follow a similar dictum? Cora pointed to Game 4 of the 2018 World Series when he let Eduardo Rodriguez try to work out of a bases-loaded jam in the sixth inning. One run scored on an error. Yasiel Puig then crushed a three-run homer to left field. Cora said that decision was based on matchups and faulted himself for not recognizing Rodriguez was tiring. Cora said he doesn’t want a script, but he does want to be as prepared as possible. “If you’re not ready to digest the information and use it the right way, I don’t think you’re going to be successful in this game,” Cora said. Cora and Bloom discussed the Snell move as part of the getting reacquainted process. “The way I see it, it’s a partnership,” Cora said. “They’re going to provide information. I’m going to manage the dugout and the clubhouse and manage the game and hopefully we can be successful.” Said Bloom: “I know it’s a big topic right now obviously. I know a lot of folks over with the Rays. Not being there, I can’t speak to the decision itself. “The only thing that has bothered me a little bit from a distance with respect to [Cash] is that somehow people think he didn’t do what managers have been doing for decades, which is get as prepared as you can before the game and then make a decision in game based on all the information, including your own read on the situation.” Red Sox CEO Sam Kennedy believes the general manager and field manager must work in unison for a team to reach its potential.
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