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Cora, who led Boston to the 2018 World Series
championship in his first year at the helm, served a season-long
suspension in 2020 after MLB found him to be one of the
instigators of the Astros' sign stealing scheme during his time
with that club.
The Red Sox did not immediately respond to a request for comment
on reports published on Major League Baseball's website https://www.mlb.com/news/alex-cora-red-sox-manager-returns,
which cited an unnamed source, and by media including ESPN.
In MLB's January report on its investigation into the Astros,
Cora was mentioned several times and viewed as one of the
members of the dugout who spearheaded the scheme during the
team's World Series championship run in 2017.
According to MLB, Cora, who was the Astros' bench coach,
arranged to install a monitor displaying the centerfield camera
shots near the Houston dugout so players could figure out signs
and signal to their batter what type of pitch was coming.
In a separate investigation, the Red Sox escaped with minor
penalties for an illegal use of technology in 2018 that MLB
called more limited than the Astros scandal. Cora was cleared
and found to have been unaware of the matter.
Ron Roenicke took over as interim manager of the Red Sox in
February but the team, who finished the COVID-19
pandemic-shortened season last in the American League East
division, said in September that he would not return next year.
(Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto; Editing by Ken Ferris)
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