{"id":787277,"date":"2026-07-08T01:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T01:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/787277\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T01:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T01:31:08","slug":"detroit-tigers-and-third-base-coach-joey-cora-split-over-philosophical-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/787277\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Tigers and third base coach Joey Cora split over ‘philosophical differences’"},"content":{"rendered":"

DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Detroit Tigers<\/a> third base coach Joey Cora has left the club in the middle of his third season on the job because of what manager A.J. Hinch described on Tuesday as \u201cphilosophical differences.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that news is going to be surprising to a lot of people,\u201d Hinch said. \u201cI love Joey. Joey loved being a Tiger. He\u2019s been instrumental in his time here. But similar to a family, sometimes it doesn\u2019t last forever.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe both just agreed it\u2019s probably best for the players and everybody to separate,\u201d Hinch added.<\/p>\n

Cora, a native of Puerto Rico, is the older brother of former Boston Red Sox<\/a> manager Alex Cora, who was fired earlier this season. Both played in the major leagues for more than a decade as middle infielders.<\/p>\n

Billy Boyer, a first-year member of Hinch\u2019s staff, will move from his position handling \u201cquality control\u201d to third base coach for the remainder of this season, the club said before Tuesday night\u2019s game against the Athletics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cora has been a base coach for most of the past decade, spending five seasons with Pittsburgh and two with the New York Mets<\/a>. During that time he\u2019s developed a reputation for challenging opposing fielders by aggressively signaling for runners to take third or try to score on balls in play. <\/p>\n

Tigers catcher Jake Rogers<\/a> told mlb.com he learned of the move in a text on Monday night, when the Tigers were idle.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t speak for the other guys, but it hit me kind of hard,\u201d Rogers said.<\/p>\n

Hinch said the decision stemmed only from baseball matters, not anything personal or an issue off the field.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thanked him profusely,\u201d Hinch said. \u201cHe has really been impactful at changing our aggressiveness, our intensity, our toughness. Now, those come with some risk.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to dive into specifics, because I\u2019d have to unravel a lot of different things over the years that I debate left and right with all of our staff,\u201d Hinch said. \u201dIt\u2019s just two baseball guys talking about what was best, and obviously as a manager, I own it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boyer, 42, is in his first season on a major league staff after beginning his coaching career developing minor leaguers for the Minnesota Twins<\/a> and Tigers.<\/p>\n

Boyer \u201cclearly doesn\u2019t have the experience that Joey had. But I have a ton of confidence in him,\u201d Hinch said, adding that he does not expect the Tigers to become more conservative on the base paths.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe style of play is ingrained in what we do. It\u2019s part of our DNA in this ballpark,\u201d Hinch said. \u201cIt\u2019s a huge competitive advantage to maintain that aggressiveness. … Our style of play is not going to change, and our mindset is not going to change.\u201d<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Detroit Tigers third base coach Joey Cora has left the club in the middle of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-787277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}