A day before the Red Sox tried to salvage the final game of a three-city West Coast road swing Wednesday night in Anaheim, Calif., Alex Cora provided a blunt assessment of the 2025 season.
“We’ve been an average team,” he said.
The math proves his point: With a 40-42 record after Wednesday’s 5-2 loss to the Angels, the Red Sox stumbled past the season’s official halfway point stuck in the middling neighborhood. It’s the definition of average. Their post Yankees-series bump is a distant memory while their post-Rafael Devers trade hangover continues.
The fault for the frustrating inconsistency lies in many places — from a front office still pulling purse strings so tightly, to an injury list far too crowded for comfort.
But while it may not be quantifiable statistically, there’s more than a full share of blame for the manager: Cora, too, has been pretty average this season.
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