Boston Red Sox re-hire Alex Cora as manager, per reports

Photo by Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images MLB Rumors: Alex Cora is the Boston Red Sox manager again, per reports indicating that Boston was bringing back their former skipper, who stepped down in the aftermath of his being implicated in the Houston Astros sign-stealing scandal this spring.

Cora, who was the Astros’ bench coach in 2017, as well as being the reported ringleader in the team’s implementing of an illegal scheme to steal signs via a live stream of the opposing catcher’s signs, which was then relayed to batters by banging a trash can, was suspended for the 2020 season, as was A.J. Hinch, the Astros manager, and Jeff Luhnow, the Astros general manager. The suspensions ended…