Jim Tracy showed the impact of the right in-season switch. Can his son get another team to the playoffs 17 years later?
The stories would write themselves in one of the more fascinating intertwingings in recent baseball history.
Ultimately, these situations aren’t totally the same and the Red Sox roster has arguably more to overcome than Colorado did.
“I think you can’t paint every situation with the same brush,” (Dan) O’Dowd commented while discussing the differences, including the initial decisions with Hurdle in Colorado and Cora in Boston.
For Chad Tracy in the meantime, however, the ex-Colorado executive believes in the Red Sox interim given the baseball path his family set for him to follow one way or another.
