Ask around, and you will invariably hear that AJ Hinch is a nice guy. Alex Cora? Nice guy. Now Hinch has been fired, essentially for letting Cora cheat on his behalf with the Houston Astros. Cora still has a job as of this typing, but only because I type fast. The Red Sox should fire him as their manager, soon and in the way he deserves: Tell him to sit in the Fenway Park dugout, and if he hears two bangs on a trash can, he’s gone.
Another World Series-winning manager, Leo Durocher, famously said that nice guys finish last.