Dave Dombrowski Believes Alex Cora Will Be ‘Outstanding Manager’ Again

Former Red Sox president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski parted ways with the club in Sept. 2019, just a few months before Alex Cora and Boston mutually agreed to part ways due to his role with the Houston Astros’ sign-stealing scandal.

And Dombrowski still is high on the man he hired to help lead Boston to a 2018 World Series victory, recently mentioning he feels that Cora will get another manager job in Major League Baseball on MassLive’s “The Fenway Rundown” podcast, hosted by Chris Cotillo.

“I think Alex is a great baseball man, he’s a good person,” Dombrowski said, via Cotillo. “He made a mistake (with the Astros), he fessed up to it and I think the world’s a forgiving place when you do that. I think he’ll be a manager in the future and an outstanding one for someone as years come by.

“I think he can be a general manager if he chooses. He’s a very smart person overall. He knows the game inside and out. He has worked a little bit in the front office in Puerto Rico for the winter ball club there and even with putting their (World Baseball Classic) team together. I definitely think he could do that if he so chooses.”

But at the end of the day, Dombrowski feels like he loves wearing a uniform in the dugout too much, and that we’ll see Cora as a manager after his one-year suspension.