The Red Sox are shaking things up in a massive way.
The team has fired manager Alex Cora — and four members of his coaching staff — on Saturday, The Post’s Jon Heyman confirmed.
Hitting coach Peter Fatse, bench coach Ramon Vazquez and third-base coach Kyle Hudson were all let go.
Game-planning coach Jason Varitek — a two-time World Series-winning Red Sox legend — is being reassigned to another role within the organization, according to multiple reports.
Triple-A skipper Chad Tracy will take over the big league manager job on an interim basis, ESPN reported.
Though the Red Sox won 17-1 over the rival Orioles on Saturday, they have massively underperformed expectations with a 10-17 start.
Boston, which made the playoffs as a wild-card entrant last year, sits in last place in the American League East on Saturday night.
The offense has been one of the worst in all of baseball, with the team’s OPS (.667) ranking 26th. The Red Sox have hit 18 home runs as a team, tied with the Giants for the lowest total in MLB.
The team’s young core has largely flopped, with Roman Anthony (.686), Marcelo Mayer (.661) and Jarren Duran (.549) all holding sub-.700 OPS marks.
The pitching, though, hasn’t been much better. Boston’s team 4.44 ERA ranks 21st in baseball. Garrett Crochet, last year’s AL Cy Young runner-up as been far from ace-like with a 6.30 ERA and 1.47 WHIP through six starts. One of the team’s big prizes in free agency, left-hander Ranger Suarez (4.00 ERA, 1.15 WHIP), has, so far, mostly not lived up to his five-year, $130 million deal.
The firing ends Cora’s eight-season Red Sox run that started with an impressive high in 2018 with a franchise-record 108 wins and a World Series crown.
But two years later, Cora agreed to leave his post after his alleged role in the Astros’ 2017 sign-stealing scandal as their bench coach.
The Red Sox, however, re-hired Cora in 2021 before the team made a run all the way to the ALCS. Boston would make the playoffs just one more time in his tenure, losing to the Yankees in the wild-card round last year.
He finishes with a 619-541 record.
