The Red Sox aren’t exactly entering the 2023 season with high expectations.
Coming off of a last-place finish in 2022, Boston enters a new 162-game campaign with plenty of question marks, both in the lineup and across its pitching corps.
Back in early February, FanGraphs’s ZiPS Projected Standings tabbed the Red Sox for a 79-83 record.
Just don’t tell any of that to Alex Cora.
Speaking ahead of Boston’s final spring-training tuneup of the year on Tuesday, the Red Sox manager was candid when it came to his motivations entering his fifth season at the helm.