Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora had some choice words for those who claimed his team wouldn’t make the playoffs this year, noting that no one believed in his squad before the season.<\/p>\n
“Let’s be honest, nobody thought we were gonna make it to October (when the season started),” Cora said, per Christopher Smith<\/a> of MassLive.<\/p>\n “Whoever says that, ‘Yeah, we were a playoff team,’ that’s f–king bulls–t, to be honest with you. Nobody thought we were gonna make it to October. It was New York. It was Baltimore, it was Toronto, you know, and we believed we were going to play in October. We set our standards every single day. And we hit our standards.”<\/p>\n The Red Sox endured two non-winning seasons (78-84 in 2023; 81-81 in 2024) after last making the playoffs in 2022. Expectations weren’t great for Boston this year, but they’re currently 88-72 and have safely clinched a wild card spot.<\/p>\n This article will be updated soon to provide more information and analysis.<\/p>\n Make Bleacher Report one of your preferred sources on Google by selecting Bleacher Report on the “source preferences” page\u00a0here<\/a>.
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