Alex Cora is the manager of the Boston Red Sox in Major League Baseball. He previously played in MLB for 14 seasons with the Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, Cleveland Indians, New York Mets, Texas Rangers, and Washington Nationals. After retiring as a player, Cora served as the bench coach for the Houston Astros during their first World Series title in 2017. Cora was named Boston’s manager the following season, where he won a franchise-best 108 games and led the team to victory in the 2018 World Series. He is the fifth MLB manager to win the World Series in his first season and the first Puerto Rican manager of a World Series-winning team. CorA was implicated in a sign-stealing scandal during his time with
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Alex Cora is the manager of the Boston Red Sox in Major League Baseball. He previously played in MLB for 14 seasons with the Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, Cleveland Indians, New York Mets, Texas Rangers, and Washington Nationals. After retiring as a player, Cora served as the bench coach for the Houston Astros during their first World Series title in 2017. Cora was named Boston’s manager the following season, where he won a franchise-best 108 games and led the team to victory in the 2018 World Series. He is the fifth MLB manager to win the World Series in his first season and the first Puerto Rican manager of a World Series-winning team. Following the 2019 season, CorA was implicated in a sign-stealing scandal during his time with Astros. He was subsequently suspended through the 2020 postseason for his role in the Astros’ scandal and returned to Red Sox as their manager after his suspension was ended. He has a brother, Joey Cora, who was Seattle’s starting second baseman in the game against the Seattle Mariners on June 7, 1998. Alex Cora spent the next seven years in Los Angeles, appearing in a total of 684 games while batting. 246 with 27 home runs and 173 RBIs. During the 2000 and 2001 seasons, he mostly played shortstop as the Dodgers moved the aging Mark Grudzielanek to second base. In the 2005 ALDS, which Boston lost to the Chicago White Sox in a three-game sweep,Cora played in one game as a defensive replacement, without a plate appearance.
In December 2005, he was originally intended to take the position of starting shortstop to the Atlanta Braves in Rentería. For the 2006 World Series, he appeared as a late-innings defensive replacement in two games of the postseason. He had one plate appearance in the 2007 World Series ALCS and one sacrifice bunt in the regular season. He appeared in 83 games and batted. 246 with 3 home runs, 18 RBIs and 18 sacrifice runs and 18 runs batted in during theregular season. In February 2006, he played in 96 games, with 22 starts at shortstop and 14 at second base; he batted. 205 with a home run and 8 RBIs; he also played in two postseason games, batting 2-for-15 in the 2004 NLDS against the St. Louis Cardinals. In January 2007, he signed as a free agent with the Cleveland Indians; he appeared in 49 games. He played in parts of the 1998, 1999, and 2000 seasons with Triple-A Albuquerque Dukes, hitting. 264 in 81 games,. 308 in 80 games, and. 373 in 30 games, respectively. He made his Red Sox debut on July 7, 2005, and through the end of the regularSeason appeared in atotal of 47 games for Boston, batting. 269 with 2 home runs. He also appeared in one postseason series with the Dodgers, the 2004NLDS, which the Dodgers lost to the St. Louis Cardinals.
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