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Red Sox Insider: Alex Cora 'Will Almost Certainly' Be Offered Phillies' Manager Job Again originally appeared on NESN. Add NESN as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
Philadelphia Phillies president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski (who previously held the same title with the Boston Red Sox) said on Tuesday that he offered the team's managerial job to Alex Cora soon after he was fired by Boston on Saturday.
Cora turned down the offer to spend time with his family, but one Red Sox insider believes the 50-year-old will get a chance at the opportunity again over the winter.
"For a moment, I really believed we were going to see Cora in the Phillies dugout this week; his bond with Dombrowski is that strong. And Dombrowski will almost certainly offer Cora the job in the offseason; bench coach Don Mattingly only agreed to serve in the interim," Gabrielle Starr of the Boston Herald wrote. "If Cora wants the type of environment he had during his first season in Boston, Philly would seem like the most obvious landing spot. He and Dombrowski already know they work well together, and they’d be united with a principal owner who’s obsessed with winning a championship and willing to spend whatever it takes to get the Phillies their third trophy in John Middleton."
Dombrowski was Boston's president of baseball operations from 2015 to 2019 and helped the Red Sox win their most recent World Series title in 2018, which was Cora's first season at the helm.
The Phillies missed the playoffs in Dombrowski's first year in Philadelphia in 2021 but qualified for the postseason each of the last four campaigns.
The Phillies won the NL pennant in 2022 and made it to Game 7 of the NLCS in 2023 before bowing out in the NLDS in 2024 and 2025.
Philadelphia is off to a 10-19 start in 2026.
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