When the Boston Red Sox hired Alex Cora to be their manager last winter, some had their doubts. Yet the one person whose opinion carried more weight than anyone else, Red Sox GM Dave Dombrowski, was undeterred. As he told to the New York Times:
“I think we needed a different voice, a younger voice, a connectivity voice between the manager and the players, with everybody. We have a lot of young guys, and the ability to connect even deeper than what we did in the past, in the clubhouse, I think is important.