While Alex Cora is still employed, two of his bench coaches are no longer employed. Boston’s offseason to-do list can now include “new third base coach” and “new pitching coach.”
Pitching coach Dave Bush has apparently been sacked by the Red Sox, according to Alex Speier of The Boston Globe. For the previous four seasons, Bush had served as Boston’s pitching coach; he had done so first under Ron Roenicke in 2020 and then for the final three under Cora.
Throughout the team’s 78–84 season, pitching was the main source of trouble. Boston’s ERA of 4.52 was 21st in the Major League Baseball. Throughout the season, starters had a 4.68 ERA, which was 22nd in baseball, and they gave up 208 home runs, which was the seventh-highest total in the league.
Bush joined the Red Sox in 2016 as a pitching development consultant, and he had been with the team ever since. In January 2019, he advanced to the position of minor league pitching coordinator, and the following October, he was named pitching coach.
Later on Monday, Speier reported that Boston had also fired Carlos Febles, its third base coach, who had been with the team since 2007. In addition to Bush, Febles was let go. Prior to the 2018 campaign, Febles was appointed the team’s third base coach. In that capacity, he helped Boston win the World Series.
But something had to give in that area for a club that faced as many outs on the bases as the Red Sox did in the previous two seasons. This offseason, Boston is also searching for a new general manager, a new head of baseball operations, and new coaches for pitching and third base.
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