Alex Cora Tweets Truly Surprising Thought About His Future in Baseball

Alex Cora and the Boston Red Sox agreed to end the skipper's tenure -- reportedly by mutual consent, we were told -- advance of the MLB's announced findings regarding the team's infamous 2018 cheating scandal earlier this year. Subsequently, Cora was suspended from baseball for one year, and though there are wild theories out there about a potential return to Boston in 2021, the man himself is floating a different possibility entirely:

That despite his mere 44 years of age, he might just be done managing.

Well, then.

Cora went from bench coach with an eventually scandal-plagued 2017 Houston Astros team that won it all to managing an eventually scandal-plagued 2018 Sox team that likewise scored a World Series title. His name will likely always be associated with a certain amount of wrongdoing no matter what he does.

Even if the Red Sox take the bolder-than-bold step to welcome him back after his ban, it might just be the smartest move on the table to stand down. Be a family man. Write a book. Start a podcast.

Who knows? For the first time in his adult life, he's got no immediate, obvious ladder to climb. That's a rather huge opportunity if he navigates it with sufficient humility and grace.

Boston's notoriously defiant, territorial sports fans might love nothing more than to see Cora storm back to the league on some kind of revenge tour, but that might be too toxic for sustainability. (Perhaps a player personnel role conceals him from the perfect amount of spotlight?)

All told, the baseball world will be brimming with curiousity following the end of the 2020 season about just how Cora chooses to author his next act.