Phillies Would Make History if They Fired Rob Thomson for Alex Cora Right Now

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Philadelphia Phillies skipper Rob Thomson has to be feeling the heat after the Boston Red Sox decided to move on from Alex Cora.

Even if Thomson isn't worried about Cora taking his job, he has to recognize that another team firing its manager isn't a good sign for him.

Regardless, despite the fact that many Phillies fans want Cora to be the manager now after he was fired by the Red Sox, it doesn't sound as likely as many are hoping for.

The idea itself makes a lot of sense, but if it were to happen, it would be the first time since 1991, when the Expos were still around.

“Boston’s stunning decision fueled immediate speculation about a potential reunion between Dombrowski and Cora in Philadelphia. It would be surprising, but not unprecedented. Seventeen managers in baseball history have managed two teams in the same season. It hasn’t happened since 1991, when Buck Rodgers managed the Expos and Angels. Asked Sunday morning if he wanted to address the Cora speculation, Dombrowski declined,” Todd Zolecki of MLB.com wrote.

Thomson later added that he can't let stuff like that get into his head, and he can only focus on what's in front of him.

For the Phillies, that's what they need their skipper to do, but it seemingly hasn't worked as they're 1-9 in their last 10 and are just 9-19 on the season.

“Well, I mean, that’s natural, right?” Thomson said. “It’s normal. And I’ve never worried about that in my entire career. I worked for a guy for 28 years [Yankees owner George Steinbrenner] who, as the ‘Seinfeld’ episode will tell you, ‘Fires people like it's a bodily function,’ and it never bothered me. It didn’t. I don't have time to think about it. I’m a person that thinks about other people and what can I do to help them? And it's out of my control. So that's where I'm at.”