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Alex Cora has a hilarious prediction about getting ejected even with baseball’s new technology
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The advent of instant replay has already given managers less reason to be ejected. If they feel an umpire blows a call, the manager can often challenge the play and the tape will tell the truth, one way or another.
The strike zone has long been a different story, so could the new ABS (Automated Ball-Strikes system) send ejections to extinction?
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Don’t bet on it.
The Athletic’s Jayson Stark spoke to a number of managers about the new challenge system, and they’re still confident that ejections will happen when tempers inevitably boil to the surface.
Alex Cora had one of the more amusing one-liners in the story.
“I’ll get thrown out — somehow, some way," the Red Sox manager said. “Laz (Díaz) will throw me out.”
Hot-tempered Aaron Boone has led the American League in ejections each of the last five seasons and has 46 total on his resume as Yankees skipper. Cora (21 managerial ejections) was also adamant that nobody would overtake Boone despite the rule changes.
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“No, no, no, no, no,” Cora repeated to Stark. “He’s leading the league. He is. He will. That’s what he does. It won’t be me. I don’t like to get ejected. He seems like he likes it.”
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