Pink Sox supervisor Alex Cora had an attention-grabbing response to the Wednesday commerce that noticed the rival Yankees land former Boston outfielder Andrew Benintendi.
“For the individual, I’m very completely happy. For the participant, we’ll depart it at that,” Cora advised reporters on Thursday, through MassLive.com.
Cora had been anticipating a “bizarre” reunion with Benintendi after he was traded to the Royals earlier than the 2021 season. The All-Star outfielder, nonetheless, missed Kansas Metropolis’s collection in opposition to Boston resulting from a rib damage.
“It was going to be bizarre in any case with Kansas Metropolis,” mentioned Cora, who managed Benintendi in Boston when the group received the World Collection in 2018.
“We haven’t performed him since he bought traded.”
Cora and Benintendi will meet subsequent month when the Pink Sox host the Yankees at Fenway Park for a three-game collection beginning Aug. 12. Cora went on to go with Benintendi’s on-field work and praised the 28-year-old for bettering his sport over time.
“Good for him. He labored arduous the final two years to make changes and get again to the hitter everyone envisioned up to now: .300 hitter who will get on base and is an effective base runner. Defensively, he’s been wonderful in Kansas Metropolis,” Cora mentioned.
The Yankees welcomed Benintendi to the Bronx in a tweet on Wednesday after they despatched three minor-league pitchers — TJ Sikkema, Beck Means, and Chandler Champlain — to Kansas Metropolis to seal the deal.
Benintendi — who went 0-for-4 with a strikeout in his Yankees debut on Thursday — is poised so as to add to an already stacked Yankees group. He's at the moment hitting .320.
Benintendi was drafted by the Pink Sox in 2015 and made his big-league debut for Boston a yr later. He was an important a part of the group’s World Collection run in 2018 and began 13 of 14 postseason video games in left subject.
Benintendi hit .294 with 20 house runs and 112 RBIs in 226 video games over the previous two seasons in Kansas Metropolis. He received the Gold Glove in 2021 and made the All-Star group in 2022.
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