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Alex Cora doesn’t mind if Dustin Pedroia becomes the Red Sox manager ‘in a few years’

If there’s one person Red Sox manager Alex Cora is willing to give his job up to in a few years, it’s his old teammate Dustin Pedroia.

Prior to Friday’s series opener against the Yankees, the Red Sox will hold a ceremony for Pedroia. Cora hinted that Pedroia could be working with the Red Sox in some capacity in the future.

“I think it’s too soon to start talking about that because … obviously his career didn’t end the way he wanted,” Cora told reporters Friday. “It was frustrating at the end, but now he’s enjoying his life again, which is very important.