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Red Sox’ Season Was Doomed From the Start—and Firing Alex Cora Won’t Change That
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Red Sox’ Season Was Doomed From the Start—and Firing Alex Cora Won’t Change That

SI·Tom Verducci·about 1 month ago
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The Red Sox put together the worst kind of team, especially one that charges $63 per seat, second most in MLB and nearly twice the league average, and another $14.50 to wash down your sorrows with a beer. A team that was both boring and so bad it is threatening to be a non-contender before school lets out and the peak walk-up ticket-selling months. The worst slugging outfit in baseball could not even sell out Fenway when the Yankees came to town, which became a three-game sweep in which the Sox scored three runs and were largely non-competitive. The boredom they engendered was profound, a quality worse than being bad. Lou Piniella once told me the worst thing a manager can do is to let a game get out of hand. On a larger, costlier scale, the Red Sox were looking at letting a season get out of hand before April ended. So, owner John Henry and Craig Breslow, chief baseball officer, fired manager Alex Cora on Saturday .…

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