Alex Cora had a somewhat disappointing day on Tuesday — his first one of those in a baseball sense in a very long time — when he finished second behind Bob Melvin in the American League Manager of the Year voting. It wasn’t a major injustice or anything like that in this writer’s opinion, but it still wasn’t the ideal result from our perspective. Either way, the down times didn’t last long for Cora. Just one day after he lost out on the award, Alex Cora has signed a new contract with the Red Sox.