When he fired Alex Cora last weekend, Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow used a move struggling executives have fallen back on for generations: Find someone else to blame.
After a 10–17 start to the season, Breslow cleaned house in the dugout, firing Cora and most of his coaching staff. It was a shocking move that ousted a World Series-winning manager with a solid track record of success. And the decision totally ignored the personnel issues Cora had to contend with.
