
Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora apologizes for scandal, says he served his punishment
Alex Cora figured he would eventually get back into baseball -- maybe in two or three years. But not this quickly and not back as manager of the Boston Red Sox, the team he guided to a World Series title in 2018. Cora and the Red Sox mutually parted ways in January after Cora was found to have been instrumental in developing ways to use the Houston Astros' replay room to illegally transmit signs when he was a bench coach for the team in 2017. Commissioner Rob Manfred's nine-page report mentioned Cora's name 11 times. In April, MLB officially suspended Cora through the end of the World Series. "When the suspension happened, this is the last thing I was thinking," Cora said at Tuesday's news conference at Fenway Park that…