Good morning! The Phillies — desirous to get in on a few of that candy, candy dysfunction — copied the Pink Sox by firing their very own supervisor yesterday. Rumors instantly swirled that Alex Cora would reunite along with his previous boss, Dave Dombrowski. However these rumors had been shortly quashed when it was revealed that interim supervisor Don Mattingly could be given the remainder of the season (a stage of job safety that Craig Breslow didn’t give to Chad Tracy). Because it seems, although, the rumors had been based mostly solidly in actual fact. From Chris Cotillo:
Inside 24 hours of his dramatic firing by the Pink Sox on Saturday, Alex Cora acquired a brand new job supply from a well-recognized boss.
Phillies president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski confirmed Tuesday that he tried to rent Cora within the speedy aftermath of his firing Saturday evening. Regardless of nonetheless having a supervisor (Rob Thomson) on the time, Dombrowski made an overture to Cora on Sunday. Cora declined, citing a want to spend the remainder of the season with household, and Dombrowski pivoted, firing Thomson and changing him with interim supervisor Don Mattingly earlier than Tuesday’s recreation.
Cora is free to take a seat on his sofa for the remainder of the season and maintain gathering paychecks from the Sox (about $7.5 million price of them) which sounds fairly good to me. However Rob Thomson isn’t going to be the final supervisor fired this yr, and the rumors will maintain coming. So what do you assume, will we see Cora again within the bigs this yr? Would you wish to work or would you’re taking the money and spend the summer time roadtripping to music festivals or one thing? Discuss that and whtever else you need and, as at all times, be good to 1 one other.
