The coaching staff of Alex Cora’s Red Sox will be different in the 2024 Major League Baseball season.
Boston fired pitching coach Dave Bush and third base coach/infield instructor Carlos Febles on Monday, according to The Boston Globe’s Alex Speier and MassLive’s Chris Cotillo.
Bush’s anticipated departure comes after the Red Sox finished the season with the worst team ERA in baseball, 4.52. Bush, who took over as Boston’s pitching coach in October 2019, oversaw a struggling starting pitching rotation in 2023. The Red Sox starters combined for a 4.68 ERA, good for 22nd in the majors, and recorded the fourth-fewest innings in the league.
According to Speier, Boston’s “defensive collapse” contributed to Febles’ alleged departure. According to The Globe’s scribe, the team was dead worst in MLB in outs over average and runs allowed. Before being named Boston’s third base coach in November 2017, the 47-year-old had been with the Red Sox organization since 2007, working in Lowell, Lancaster, Salem, Greenville, and Portland.
The reported firings of Bush and Febles come exactly one week after Cora emphasized the importance of Red Sox coaching development. Boston will try to achieve that progress through the backfills of Bush and Febles, which will be on the must-do list for whoever succeeds Chaim Bloom as the team’s baseball operations manager.
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