Alex Cora Firing By The Red Sox Might Not Be The Only Managerial Change

BusinessSportsMoneyAlex Cora Firing By The Red Sox Might Not Be The Only Managerial ChangeByBarry M. Bloom,Senior Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Boomskie on BaseballFollow AuthorApr 26, 2026, 09:41pm EDT--:-- / --:--This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.Alex Cora managed his last game for the Boston Red Sox this weekend against the Baltimore Orioles at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.(Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images)Getty ImagesWith the Boston Red Sox firing Alex Cora and his coaching staff on Saturday, you have to wonder if there’s more to come. Uneasy owners in Houston, Philadelphia and New York must be apoplectic about their teams' poor starts not living up to the money they’ve spent.There’s no crying in baseball, but there’s certainly plenty of firing, and owners are now lowering the boom on managers with uncommon regularity. The Astros’ Joe Espada, the Mets’ Carlos Mendoza and the Phillies’ Rob Thomson are skidding toward the edge of the cliff.Twelve managers have lost their jobs since Derek Shelton was fired by the Pirates and Bud Black by the Rockies last May. Nine more were let go at the end of the 2025 season and now Cora makes it a dozen. That’s 40% of Major League Baseball’s 30 teams in less than a year.Some of them, like Bob Melvin in San Francisco, were on guaranteed contracts. The Giants had just exercised his option for 2026. Cora left with $13.54 million remaining on his three-year deal. Is this any way to run a business? At 11-17, the Red Sox are seven games behind the first-place Yankees in the American League East and are trying to salvage the season. “Yesterday was definitely painful,” Red Sox president Sam Kennedy said at a Sunday morning media conference in Baltimore where his club beat the Orioles, 5-3 with interim manager Chad Tracy on the bench. “But we felt it was a necessary move to take decisive action to achieve the...