The manager of the Boston Red Sox, Alex Cora, joining us here on WEEI afternoons.

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Alex Cora, I don't even have pleasantries today.

We got the news of the day. I

got to ask you about Roman Anthony, what we saw last night. Do you have an update on

Roman Anthony's status? Is he going on IL? Yeah, he's going to IEL. He has an oblique strain.

Tyn table, we don't know, is a mother one. So usually it takes from four to six weeks.

Just the impact, him not being in your lineup, clearly

when he was brought up, he had a major impact, especially in that lead-off. Just what's he going

to mean to not be in your lineup anymore? Oh, well, he's one of our best offensive players,

but it sounds harsh, but we have to move on, right? We've got to, you know, put that

uniform on today and try to win a game. And we've been through this before, right? Cases,

and, you know, we traded Rafi. You know, there's been a lot of stuff with this team, and we've been

able to keep going. So I expect the group to do the same thing. So if Roman is indeed out anywhere

two, four weeks, who knows, would you slide Duran back into the leadoff spot? Is there somebody

else perhaps? Because Roman seemed to just jive with being in the leadoff spot so well,

and the offense was rolling like that. Yeah, today's a lefty, so Eden is going to lead off.

I think Duran's hitting six or seventh because of the lefty, but most likely against

Ritey's, we'll get back to Duran leading off and Alex hitting second.

We talked to you a lot about managing the clubhouse, whether it's the trade deadline or

trades earlier in the season.

How do you manage something like this? Because we're all human beings, and it sucks when you see a teammate that's really good and plays a really big role in our operation, go down. How do you manage that? Yeah, I think if you hear Alex's interview yesterday, you know, this is part of the business, right? Now it's about going out there and winning games don't

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