Pink Sox
“The factor I like probably the most is what he brings to the equation within the dugout, within the clubhouse.”
Alex Cora adopted a linear path to turn out to be the Pink Sox supervisor, leaping into the teaching and administration ranks within the Puerto Rico Winter League shortly after hanging up his spikes in 2011.
5 years later, he was again in MLB as Houston’s bench coach earlier than taking on the reins of the Pink Sox the next yr.
Chatting with FOX Sports activities on Saturday, Cora believes that veteran Justin Turner might comply with an analogous path en path to a supervisor gig within the large leagues.
Whereas this present Pink Sox squad has no scarcity of seasoned gamers who’ve logged loads of reps within the MLB ranks, Cora says Turner has set himself aside as a future coach.
“He’s an excellent baseball participant, total,” Cora informed FOX Sports activities’ Ken Rosenthal throughout Saturday’s highway recreation in opposition to the New York Yankees. “I’ve seen him since we had been teammates with the Mets and the evolution of his swing. However the factor I like probably the most is what he brings to the equation within the dugout, within the clubhouse.
“He’s an ideal baseball man. I hate to say this as a result of I hated when individuals used to say, ‘Oh, you’re gonna be an enormous league supervisor,” however I do imagine JT, if he needs to, he’s gonna run a crew and he’s gonna be very profitable.”
Turner, who has spent 15 years in MLB, has earned two All-Star nods and gained a World Sequence with the Dodgers in 2020. The 38-year-old infielder is batting .265 with eight residence runs and 27 RBI over 63 video games with the Pink Sox.
Turner informed Alex Speier of The Boston Globe again in Might that the Pink Sox had been one in all six groups vying for his providers in free company through the winter. Regardless that the previous Dodger was a key cog for a number of 100-win groups, Turner acknowledged that groups additionally valued him as a free agent as a consequence of his management qualities.
“Clearly, each crew that I talked to referred to as me wanting to come back in and play and do what I do on the sphere, however the large message was are available and assist create a tradition within the clubhouse,” Turner informed Speier. “I form of heard that from everybody, so quite a lot of groups that had been in had been groups that had been attempting to take the subsequent step. I heard quite a lot of the identical issues.
“Everybody made clear as nicely, like, ‘We don’t need you to come back in and be a cheerleader by any means. We wish you to go on the market and do your factor.’ However the message was additionally, ‘What you are able to do in our clubhouse and do for our younger gamers may be very engaging.’”
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