2026 will mark Alex Cora’s eighth season as the manager of the Red Sox.
He reached the pinnacle in his first season with a World Series victory in 2018. There have been plenty of hardships along the way, too: his firing in 2020 amid the fallout from the Houston Astros’ 2017 cheating scandal, back-to-back losing seasons in 2022 and 2023, and missing the playoffs for three straight years (2022-24).
Factor in managing hundreds of different player personalities along the way, let alone actual game play every season, and one is bound to experience burnout.