Ep 453: EMERGENCY Pod — Red Sox name Chad Tracy full-time manager (and extend Craig Breslow), plus what to watch in the final week of the season

Yeah, so a three-year contract for Chad Tracy with, I think, some options beyond that.

Yep.

And more importantly, the interim tag gets removed, which people have wondered what took so long.

He obviously was deserving of having that title changed and be given some security for the job he did.

Took over a 10-17 team at the end of April.

went through a couple of tough months to turn things around.

And by late June, got them on an absolute heater through a period of about 40 games where they made their bones for 2026, got into the playoffs that was made official on Sunday.

And now Chad Tracy is the guy for the next few years, presumably, although that can always change if you're been paying attention to recent Red Sox history, but good for Tracy.

He certainly deserved that.

I think people are going to look at the timing here.

I'm going to guess that this just didn't get worked on yesterday, the off day, and we had heard some rumblings.

last week that perhaps something was in the offing.

It kind of makes sense to do it now.

It's a little bit of a boost for the clubhouse because we know that Tracy is an immensely popular figure in there.

He won over the team.

I think with the way he handled things, it was not an easy situation for him to walk into.

He was replacing a guy, say what you will about Alex Cora, but Cora was very well liked in that clubhouse, particularly the veterans who had played with him for a while.

And yet Tracy made himself accepted and respected publicly.

thanks to the way he treated the players and the way he went about his job.

So it's fitting there.

And it's also fitting that Craig Breslow gets a couple of options turned into guaranteed years.

You know, I wrote back at the time of the firing of Alex Cora and the coaching staff and not long

after.

And into June.

I mean, I just linked to it in my column.

Yeah, so a three-year contract for Chad Tracy with, I think, some options beyond that.

Yep.

And more importantly, the interim tag gets removed, which people have wondered what took so long.

He obviously was deserving of having that title changed and be given some security for the job he did.

Took over a 10-17 team at the end of April.

went through a couple of tough months to turn things around.

And by late June, got them on an absolute heater through a period of about 40 games where they made their bones for 2026, got into the playoffs that was made official on Sunday.

And now Chad Tracy is the guy for the next few years, presumably, although that can always change if you're been paying attention to recent Red Sox history, but good for Tracy.

He certainly deserved that.

I think people are going to look at the timing here.

I'm going to guess that this just didn't get worked on yesterday, the off day, and we had heard some rumblings.

last week that perhaps something was in the offing.

It kind of makes sense to do it now.

It's a little bit of a boost for the clubhouse because we know that Tracy is an immensely popular figure in there.

He won over the team.

I think with the way he handled things, it was not an easy situation for him to walk into.

He was replacing a guy, say what you will about Alex Cora, but Cora was very well liked in that clubhouse, particularly the veterans who had played with him for a while.

And yet Tracy made himself accepted and respected publicly.

thanks to the way he treated the players and the way he went about his job.

So it's fitting there.

And it's also fitting that Craig Breslow gets a couple of options turned into guaranteed years.

You know, I wrote back at the time of the firing of Alex Cora and the coaching staff and not long

after.

And into June.

I mean, I just linked to it in my column.