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Red Sox coaches Carl Willis, Chili Davis, Brian Butterfield move on

If the Red Sox were looking for experienced coaches to help the inexperienced Alex Cora, who is about to enter his first year as manager after serving only one year as the bench coach for the Houston Astros, they’ll have to look elsewhere.

The current coaching staff, full of experienced voices, is disbanding.

After firing John Farrell, president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski told the coaches on staff they were free to look for jobs with other clubs while the Sox found a new manager. Ultimately it would be the new manager’s decision if the current coaches were going to stay employed.