WHITE SOX NAME JOEY CORA THIRD BASE COACH

 

 

CHICAGO – Joey Cora, a former All-Star second baseman, has been named third base coach of the Chicago White Sox.

 

Cora, 38, spent the 2003 season as the manager of Class A Savannah in the South Atlantic League, guiding the club to a 58-80 (.420) record. He spent the previous two seasons with the New York Mets as the manager at Advanced Rookie Kingsport of the Appalachian League, going 23-44 in 2002 and 31-35 in 2001. Cora began his coaching career in 2000 as a coach with Class A Daytona in the Chicago Cubs system.

 

Cora played 11 seasons in the major leagues with San Diego (1987, 1989-90), the White Sox (1991-94), Seattle (1995-98) and Cleveland (1998), batting .277 (1,035-3,374) with 30 home runs and 294 RBI in 1,119 games. He added 624 runs scored, 41 triples and 117 stolen bases. In four seasons with the White Sox, Cora hit .263 (326-1,241).

 

His best season came in 1997 with the Mariners when he established career highs with a .300 average, 172 hits, 40 doubles, 11 home runs, 54 RBI and a .441 slugging percentage and made the American League All-Star Team. Cora scored 90-plus runs four times in his career, including a career-high 111 in his final season with Seattle and Cleveland in 1998.

 

The native of Caguas, Puerto Rico appeared in the postseason four times, with the White Sox in 1993, Mariners in 1995 and 1997 and Indians in 1998. Cora, who attended Vanderbilt University, was a first-round selection (23rd overall) of San Diego in 1985. His younger brother, Alex, is an infielder with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

 

 

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© 2003 Chicago White Sox

Well, that should be interesting. Wonder how he will turn out.

I smell Ligue part II, with Cora playing Tom Gamboa.

 

In all seriousness, don't really like the hire. Rather have Bruce Kimm, but maybe that's because I'm anti-Cora to begin with because I never liked him as a player.

Where did that come from? I barely heard anything about cora before they hired him. Im not so sure about hiring a bunch of 38 year olds for the teams coaching staff

I smell Ligue part II, with Cora playing Tom Gamboa.

 

In all seriousness, don't really like the hire.  Rather have Bruce Kimm, but maybe that's because I'm anti-Cora to begin with because I never liked him as a player.

How come you never liked Cora Aboz? Did he do something to piss you off?

Well you have 2 38 year olds in Joe Nossek...That's alot of baseball knowledge on your bench for a coach...Not to mention he steals other team's signs...

I thought we were getting to young as well but Caveman and Nossek are pretty good minds I guess. Would've liked Leyva.

Eh.. a day late.

I would've preferred more experience.

 

Don't know if they're keeping Rafael Santana to coach 1B, haven't heard anything to the contrary.

 

One good thing, the Latin guys should be pretty comfortable, there'll be a lot of Spanish being spoken in the clubhouse.

We are going from Colon needing an interpreter, to Buehrle needing one.

Well I feel a little better about this now that I know he had been managing in the minor leagues for the last few seasons

Another s*** hire

Well we gotta wait to see how it all pans out. Hopefully he won't make any boneheaded baserunning calls.

As a manager he had to coach 3rd base in the minors so its not like hes never done it before.

I think he can be a decent coach. I'm more worried about our pitching than our 3b coach.

Hiring Cora to coach 3rd Base is a very minor event. How someone could be happy, or get pissed about this is beyond me.

Hiring Cora to coach 3rd Base is a very minor event.  How someone could be happy, or get pissed about this is beyond me.

Who knows? Maybe his sleeve wiping, ear tugging, and hat adjusting skills are not up to par.

I think he can be a decent coach. I'm more worried about our pitching than our 3b coach.

 

Yep. That should be our #1 worry, not if Joey Cora, Joe Bazooka, or Joey Tribiani coaches 3B. We have bigger fish to fry.