Jones & Keefe: How much of the blame for the Red Sox miscues falls on Alex Cora?

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00:00Some of it has to be on Cora somewhere in there.

00:02You're the manager.

00:03The Red Sox in 2024, in terms of overall errors,

00:08were second in baseball, 115 last year.

00:11In 2023, they were second in baseball, 102 errors.

00:14And I think the last couple of years, and I brought this up,

00:17sloppy fielding, poor fundamentals defensively.

00:20I brought this up the last couple of years,

00:21and what you constantly hear from Red Sox fans in defense of Alex Cora

00:24is what's he supposed to do?

00:26He's got Pedro Reyes playing shortstop.

00:28I'm sorry, Pablo Reyes playing shortstop.

00:31You have all these injuries out there.

00:32It started the year two years ago, and he had like a million errors.

00:35So what you hear is they don't have the personnel.

00:37And it's like, okay, they don't have the personnel.

00:39Yeah, see, now they might.

00:40What's the excuse now?

00:41You have Bregman, who's won a gold glove at third.

00:43Story's healthy, so you can't blame the shortstop.

00:45If you want to get on Campbell a little bit, fine.

00:47Their outfield is supposed to be gold glove caliber across the board.

00:50Yeah.

00:50So what's the excuse?

00:52And at some point, I got to look at the manager, I think,

00:54more for that than the Ks, because I agree with you.

00:58I don't think Alex Cora believes in striking out at the clip.

01:01They're striking out.

01:02I think it bothers him more than it bothers Breslow and the driveline guys.

01:06And I think you've heard that.

01:07We heard it last week when he went on WEI Afternoons.

01:09He said, I hate the strikeouts.

01:10He said, they're going to normalize.

01:12They're going to sort themselves out.

01:13They didn't last year.

01:14We'll see if they do this year.

01:15But I still can't completely let him off the hook for that,

01:19because if you didn't want to deal with the Red Sox and their approach

01:21and their analytics, you didn't have to take their money.

01:24You don't have to take this job.

01:25You're a free agent.

01:26You were reportedly going to be highly sought after.

01:28You reportedly were going to have your pick of the litter for jobs.

01:32And so you decided to come back here.

01:34On some level, you're complicit with that,

01:35even if you stamp your feet and say you don't like strikeouts.

01:37On some level, you're on board with it.

01:39So where's Alex Cora on the list?

01:41I don't know how high up or low down he is on the list.

01:45He's on the list, though, because they're doing it again,

01:47and they should have the personnel defensively.

01:49Yeah, it's strange.

01:5013 different players have committed at least one error.

01:54Bregman leads the way with three.

01:56But everybody has had an issue with it.

02:00I mean, even their catchers all have errors.

02:02They've got a pitcher on there.

02:03It's a little bit of everybody.

02:05They've got a pitch.

02:06They've got a pitch.

02:06Bye.

02:07Good luck.

02:08Bye.

02:09Well, that me.

02:09Bye.

02:10I love you.

02:11Yeah.

02:12Bis First, eh.

02:14Bye.

02:15Bye.

02:21Bye.

02:23Bye.

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02:25Bye.

02:26Bye.

02:30Bye.

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02:34Bye.

02:35Bye.

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