Red Sox's Alex Cora Takes Hard Stance On Whether He Wants To Replace Chaim Bloom

Cora has expressed interest in joining a front office at some point in the future

Scott Neville | Sep 16, 2023

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The Boston Red Sox have some decisions to make regarding their vacant front office positions after chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom was fired and Brian O'Halloran was removed from the general manager role and offered a senior leadership role.

Red Sox manager Alex Cora was immediately thrown in the rumor mill as a potential candidate to place Bloom. The 47-year-old has expressed interest in potentially joining a front office someday and reportedly has been more active than usual this year regarding player development.

Cora was asked about the situation and made his stance abundantly clear.

“That’s something that intrigues me," Cora told reporters, as transcribed by The Boston Globe's Pete Abraham. "I’ve done it before on a lower scale, the World Baseball Classic and winter ball. But it’s something that right now -- where I’m at, where we’re at as a family -- it’s too soon to start talking about it.”

Cora all but took himself out of the running. It makes a lot of sense for both sides for Cora to stay in place. He's proven to be a strong manager and should continue to thrive in that role.

From Boston's perspective, they need someone with more experience to lead the charge at this juncture. The Red Sox are facing a franchise-altering winter and could use someone comfortable in the role. Also, promoting Cora to the front office would just open up the manager role, so they'd make no progress in their hiring process. It would also damage the organization's continuity even further to move Cora and have to add another skipper into the mix.

It would not be surprising to see Cora thrive as a member of the front office someday but this is not the time to run the experiment.

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Published Sep 16, 2023

SCOTT NEVILLE

Scott Neville covers the Boston Red Sox for Sports Illustrated's new page "Inside The Red Sox." Before starting "Inside The Red Sox", Neville attended Merrimack College, where he earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Communication and Media with a minor in Marketing. Neville spent all four years with Merrimack's radio station WMCK, where he grew as a radio/podcast host and producer. His propensity for being in front of a microphone eventually expanded to film, where he produced multiple short films alongside his then-roommate and current co-worker Stephen Mottram. On a journey that began as a way to receive easy credits via film classes, he received a call from "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" star Charlie Day. Day advised him to make a feature-length film, which he completed his senior year. While writing the film, Neville completed an internship for United Way as part of their NFL Partnership Program. Neville ran the blog for a team of interns and hosted an internet show called "United Way's NFL Partnership Series" where he interviewed NFL alumni. After college Neville wrote for SB Nation's "Over The Monster," a Red Sox sister site of the flagship brand. His work would eventually lead him to a job as a content producer with NESN, where he would cover all sports. After developing as a writer with the top regional network in the world, he was given the opportunity to join the Sports Illustrated Media Group in his current endeavor as the publisher of "Inside The Red Sox." The successful launch and quick rise of "Inside The Red Sox" led to Neville joining the Baseball Essential ownership group, a national baseball site under SIMG. Follow him on Twitter: @ScottNeville46 Email: nevilles@merrimack.edu