Hello, I waste my time tracking all these statelines, but it's here I found my kind,

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Hello, and welcome to episode 2471 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangraphs, presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally from FanGraphs.

Hello, Meg.

Hello.

Well, if you're a Red Sox coach, condolences.

Or congrats.

If you're Alex Cora, he seems somewhat elated about it.

But we had a mass firing, a mass layoff event on Saturday.

I saw many comps to Boston Massacres, Saturday Night Massacres, possibly in poor taste, given other events from this past Saturday.

But whatever you call it, here's the tale of the tape.

It was not just manager Alex Cora fired, but also most of his coaching staff,

hitting coach Peter Fatsy, assistant hitting coach Dylan Lawson, bench coach Ramon

Ramon Vasquez, third base slash outfield coach Kyle Hudson, Major League hitting strategist Joe Cronin.

Not that Joe Cronin, different living Joe Cronin.

And maybe also kind of Jason Veritek, who was the game planning and run prevention coach, who was euphemistically reassigned.

But it's not entirely clear that he cares to be reassigned.

So he's off the staff one way or another.

AAA manager, Chad Tracy, has been promoted to take over as the interim manager, along with

another Chad.

Chad Epperson.

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