If Carlos Beltran is within the broadcast sales space for any Yankees-Purple Sox video games this yr, he’ll have considered one of his largest supporters within the Boston dugout.
Alex Cora, who got here again to handle the Purple Sox in 2021 after being suspended for 2020 for his position within the Astros’ 2017 sign-stealing scheme that Beltran was additionally concerned in, is glad to see his good good friend make his personal return to the sport this season as a YES Community analyst.
“For him to be again within the recreation, it means the world,” Cora, the previous Astros bench coach, stated Thursday at Yankee Stadium as his crew ready for Opening Day. “As a good friend, I want him the very best. I do know it’s been very troublesome the final two years. We’ve had some nice conversations and he is aware of I’m right here for him. He knew the entire time I used to be there for him, which is essential. Not just for him, however for [wife] Jessica and the children. I understand how laborious the entire course of was.
“Truthful or unfair, we’re not going to get into that. However the truth that he determined to get again into the sport, it means the world and I’m happy with him.”
Beltran had been out of the sport since 2020, when he misplaced the job he had simply gotten as Mets supervisor within the fallout from the Astros scandal being revealed. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred pointed to Cora and Beltran as two of the important thing minds within the scheme, and whereas Beltran averted the suspension that Cora and then-Astros supervisor A.J. Hinch acquired, it nonetheless price him his job with the Mets.
A yr after Cora and Hinch returned as managers, Beltran — who was the one participant talked about in MLB’s report — was employed by YES to work video games within the broadcast sales space. His regular-season debut is about to come back later this month, although he made waves in his solely spring coaching recreation Monday when he appeared to suggest that the Yankees had signed Aaron Decide to an extension, which he later corrected.
Cora, who served as an MLB commentator for ESPN from 2013-2016, stated Beltran doesn't have a simple job.
“I want him nothing however the very best,” Cora stated. “Hopefully he doesn’t crush me on TV.”
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