As the MLB manager carousel starts to spin, here are the top names to watch

It’s firing season. Might as well call it what it is. When the Boston Red Sox on Saturday night sacked a championship-winning manager just a month into the schedule, it must have sent a shiver through every embattled skipper.Of course, teams don’t like to say they fire people. On Sunday in Baltimore, the day after ousting manager Alex Cora and six of his coaches, Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow spun the news harder than he ever spun a curveball.Advertisement