(Boston) The Boston Red Sox exercised the option of two more seasons on Alex Cora’s contract, rewarding the manager who guided them to the American League Championship Series in his first season after returning from a one-year suspension.
Cora, 46, is now on contract until 2024.
“Alex’s leadership over our staff and our players has been instrumental in everything we accomplished in 2021,” said Baseball CEO Chaim Bloom. Along with the entire Red Sox executive, I am delighted with these many years of continued collaboration as we work together to bring another World Series trophy to Fenway Park. ”
A former infielder who played for the Red Sox in the 2007 World Series conquest, Cora is 284-202 in three seasons as a manager.
In his first year in 2018, he led the club to a team record of 108 wins and to the World Series title. Cora was fired a year later when he was identified as one of the main culprits in the signal theft scandal with the Houston Astros.
After Ron Roenicke’s short interlude during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, Cora has returned to the shelter in Boston. The Red Sox compiled a 92-70 record, then beat the New York Yankees in the American League playoff and the Tampa Bay Rays in the sectional playoffs before losing to the Astros in the series. championship.
“I’m more than grateful for this opportunity to lead the Red Sox,” said Cora. We have had so many special moments as a team and as a city in 2021, but we still have an unfinished business to do. ”