Is Alex Cora getting enough credit?

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Is Alex Cora getting enough credit? Just how bright is this #redsox future?? Would you be willing to deal some of that 'future' if it means "going all in this season"?

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00:00correctly that i was not after this weekend not after what this team did this weekend no i think

00:06he's got those guys and i give him a lot of credit for getting the guys to not let the devers

00:14trade affect the clubhouse and maybe the chemistry the vibe and then that would then lead to maybe

00:24the performance on the field well i think it affected it in the in the opposite way right i

00:30think it was a weight off their shoulders and getting rid of him has allowed these guys to gel

00:37from a chemistry perspective and we were talking about it earlier a lot but heading into the deadline

00:46i i'd be very concerned uh about removing anybody from that baseball team because you're effing

00:54with the chemistry and and i don't think you want to do that but you need another pitcher and so you

00:59got to figure out how you're going to get that like look you gotta you gotta ask yourself if you're the

01:06red socks right now and you feel like the clubhouse is in a great position if removing a guy that

01:15and you will just use the rank as the name being used jaron's rank because we were talking about

01:20it last week we were talking about the fact that there was you had an uh an abundance of uh of wealth

01:28at the in the outfield position and you're going to get some value from right value for jaron duran

01:34and so go ahead i i would not i would not do it i would not do it at all but is the clubhouse in a

01:39good position where they can handle that they might be in a good position where they can handle that

01:45and they handle that in a positive way and that be part of alex core understanding and helping that

01:51because then that means you just get a guy like roman anthony playing every night well who's going

01:58to be in charge of the wally head if jaron duran goes i think that's my number one that's my major

02:02concern maybe bregman will pick up the slack yeah i think somebody who can find something they got to

02:07figure it out with bregman too and that's the other part of this stretch that we're going into with

02:12the trade deadline is we were hearing from scott boris a couple weeks ago got to get this trade

02:17done got to get this trade done and or sorry this extension this extension done um and i do think

02:24that there's some pressure there like the red socks may feel like they have leverage because

02:29he's been injured right but i still think that even before that he showed himself to be so desirable

02:35i'm not at the point where i know everybody loves craig breslow right now i'm still not at the

02:40point where i trust them handling somebody who might become a free agent because the red socks

02:45have not been good at that but he's got money with the red socks if he wants it he becomes a free agent

02:52if he feels like he can get more money out there right right but they can redo his contract in order

02:57to make it i would do that i said i had this as a lead last week and i feel it even more so today

03:05after what sedan rafaela said giving 90 of the credit when it comes to hitting the baseball to

03:12the help that he's gotten from alex praigman like give the guy what he wants like keep him here for

03:17i feel for keep him here for a long time he's an additional coach he's a he's a veteran guy he's

03:26he's been there before like i would just get it done and do it immediately i like yeah but you just

03:32can't give him what he wants why yeah but at the same time if you don't keep him here no no you've

03:38now lost him and devers right right right you already chose him right already chosen but i wouldn't

03:45but i wouldn't just give him what he wants like i would give him something that is reasonable and fair

03:51market you so you're not just going to say all right we're going to keep him here for the next six

03:55years and give him 225 million well if he wants term like for the next five years right and you

04:02make it six including this year and he wants something like 40 per i mean that's that's that's

04:10probably what he's gonna that's a lot of money it is you think he's worth 40 million he looked at

04:16before his injury and i don't think this is the kind of injury this is the second time he's dealt

04:21with this injury the other injury five years right but he's 32 right he's 32 years old but he's a he's

04:29a spry 32 spry he's not he's not a ralphie 32 i i loved watching him carefully celebrate the walk-off

04:37so as to not risk a re-injure when it comes to the hammy smart man yeah what is this financial

04:44flexibility for that you save like put yourself in this position where ownership or really the front

04:50office is saying we have financial flexibility you chose him he's the guy who you directly chose

04:56instead of raffi devers so put a little of that money there i'd probably give him two more years

05:03uh because he's got what two more years on his deal left i'd probably give him another two if and i'd give

05:09him at you know 40 because he's 40 for four years instead of five so 160 over four yeah would be the

05:16new contract yeah that's what i would i would probably give him sound of muzak in the twitch chat

05:22says chemistry is a media creation yeah i disagree they just look like they're having fun

05:30they seem when you watch body language experts we all we all do it but when you watch this team

05:36on the field they love playing for each other and with each other they love it yeah yeah i mean

05:42wiggy would know better than sound of muzak yeah is chemistry a legit thing i think yeah chemistry

05:48is definitely a legit thing but more so the chemistry comes when there's somebody that maybe you don't

05:58like there's a lot of questions around that person and that leads into this person in the in the clubhouse

06:04or the locker room asking questions and then you're talking about devers yeah yeah the negative chemistry

06:09is more harmful than a than a clubhouse who feels like they've all got it going together yeah yeah

06:14because the negative chemistry is what brings you down because you can you could still have chemistry

06:19and not be like this super you know everybody's buddy buddy type of deal but it's more of that

06:25negative that what that guy that has enough juice where they can divide the locker room or they can get

06:33one group of guys buying into what that part that they're saying versus maybe what the manager's saying

06:40what the head coach is saying what the overall philosophy is like if a guy is carrying i thought you were

06:46saying oval office there and i was like well that's another part of the chemistry right now overall philosophy

06:51oh yeah i mean the streak started with a visit to the white house yeah or a visit to the zoo

06:59depending on who you ask so it's more about buying in greg and even brezlow talked about in the front office

07:04that's why you have to blow people out and he fired some people who didn't believe in the philosophy that he had

07:11yeah this is tim from hanover hey tim good morning guys and i just want to chime chime in on the socks

07:20like what wiggy was saying we need and both both you guys too greg uh we need the quality picture

07:28right now the thing is we made it there a few years back when we were almost there when maloney was going

07:35crazy with foyer had the i had the city winner in a rule they were like loving it young kids were going

07:40to the ballpark and that's what we need to keep going so hopefully they don't mess with the team like

07:46you said greg and get that quality picture spend this year instead of dropping it last time yeah

07:52it's been four years like it's time now

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