Big Changes in Boston, Worry About Nola & Senga
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR welcome The Athletic’s Jen McCaffrey to the show to break down the shocking firing of Red Sox manager Alex Cora, along with five other coaches, and where the organization goes from here. Later, Eno and DVR dig into two struggling righties — Kodai Senga and Aaron Nola — discuss Zack Wheeler’s return, and track ‘Where The Money Went’ on the waiver wire this past weekend.
Rundown:
0:32 Red Sox Fire Alex Cora
23:23 How Chad Tracy Can Improve The Club
28:10 Kodai Senga’s Struggles Continue
33:12 Aaron Nola’s Rough Stretch
37:56 Zack Wheeler’s Return To The Mound
39:46 Trey Yesavage To Start Tuesday
41:54 Jasson Domínguez Called Up
49:00 Where The Money Went
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Rates and Barrels, we recap a busy weekend around baseball, |
| 0:04.0 | including the Red Sox decision to part ways with manager, Alex Cora, |
| 0:08.5 | and five members of his staff. |
| 0:10.8 | We'll talk about what comes next in Boston with Jen McCaffrey. |
| 0:14.6 | Let's barrels. It's Monday, April 27th, Derek Van Riper, Enosaris, and Jen McCaffrey here joining us because the Red Sox decided to fire Alex Cora. |
| 0:35.7 | Way earlier than anyone would have expected. |
| 0:37.8 | I don't think I expected Alex Cora to get fired at all this season, Jen. |
| 0:41.1 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 0:42.7 | What has happened in Boston to start the season that led to this decision to be made this early? |
| 0:49.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:50.5 | You know, I don't think anybody expected it this early, like you said, or even at all this season. |
| 0:55.9 | Cora, part of the interesting issue here is that Craig Breslow gave Cora a pretty difficult roster to manage. |
| 1:03.9 | And I think by all accounts, most people in baseball thought Cora was managing it as best as he could. |
| 1:12.0 | You know, five players in the outfield, basically, you know, five players rotating through the outfield in DH was Jaron, |
| 1:17.0 | William Brayor, Saddam Rafael, Roman Anthony, and Masataga, Yoshita. That kind of led to some |
| 1:22.9 | offensive inconsistency. Guys sitting, guys not getting consistent at bats. The offense looked dreadful over 17 games. |
| 1:30.6 | The pitching wasn't performing to the top of its standards either. |
| 1:33.8 | They didn't get off to the start that they wanted or expected. |
| 1:36.9 | It's a young group, and I think that also compounded a lot of things. |
| 1:40.8 | And here we are, you know, 17, well, now a couple games after, but he gets fired after |
| 1:47.0 | 17 games after a 17 to 1 win, mind you. Apparently they had decided earlier that morning |
| 1:53.8 | their final decisions, so no matter what was going to happen in the game, they were going to do it. |
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