Alex Cora declined a job offer from the Phillies after his firing from the Red Sox, choosing to spend the rest of the season with family. He will continue to receive approximately $7.5 million from the Red Sox while not managing.
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Within 24 hours of his dramatic firing by the Red Sox on Saturday, Alex Cora received a new job offer from a familiar boss.
Phillies president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski confirmed Tuesday that he tried to hire Cora in the immediate aftermath of his firing Saturday night. Despite still having a manager (Rob Thomson) at the time, Dombrowski made an overture to Cora on Sunday. Cora declined, citing a desire to spend the rest of the season with family, and Dombrowski pivoted, firing Thomson and replacing him with interim manager Don Mattingly before Tuesday’s game. Cora is free to sit on his couch for the rest of the season and keep collecting paychecks from the Sox (about $7.5 million worth of them) which sounds pretty good to me. But Rob Thomson is not going to be the last manager fired this year, and the rumors will keep coming. So what do you think, will we see Cora back in the bigs this year? Would you want to work or would you take the cash and spend the summer roadtripping to music festivals or something? Talk about that and whtever else you want and, as always, be good to one another.
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