“That’s something that intrigues me,” Cora said on Friday of a general manager's role.
manager Alex Cora sat in the dugout in Toronto on Friday afternoon answering more questions about his own future with the organization.
Four months later, Cora was fired for his part in the Houston Astros World Series sign-stealing scandal, but once he’d completed hisNow Bloom is gone too and Cora remains the constant. Winter ball and the WBC are undoubtedly different in a variety of ways from the year-round operations of running a major league team, and yet both Cora and CEO Sam Kennedy did not rule out a possibility of a different role for Cora at some point., Cora suggested he’d prefer to remain manager for now, but his answer certainly had an open-ended element.
“Honestly, I’m here to manage the team, right?” said Cora, who’s under contract for one more season as manager. “I’m 48 next month and I feel very comfortable with what I’m doing. I haven’t talked to Tom and John at length about what is going to happen here. I think this is a place that is a special place and we’re going to do some special things in the future and I just want to be part of that.