The Red Wedding came to Fenway. Hours after Boston dropped 17 runs on Baltimore in their most convincing win of the season, John Henry, Sam Kennedy, and Craig Breslow walked into the team hotel and gutted the staff. Alex Cora — fired. Five coaches — gone. Jason Varitek — reassigned. The first in-season managerial firing in 24 years of Fenway Sports Group ownership.

In this episode of 64 Deep — A Red Sox Podcast:

→ Who got the axe and who survived (and what that tells you about where the rot really is)

→ Why the firing was the RIGHT call at 10-17, even if the timing made no sense

→ The lazy take we're DEMOLISHING: "They didn't fire the pitching staff!" — here's why that's BS → Garrett Crochet's 7.58 ERA vs. his 3.66 SIERA — what the numbers actually say

→ Full breakdown of the Breslow & Kennedy press conference at Camden Yards

→ Who is Chad Tracy? The Worcester manager who just inherited the dugout

→ The Jim Tracy / Alex Cora connection nobody is talking about

→ Why Tracy's relationship with Anthony, Mayer, Campbell, and the rest of the young core is the whole reason he got the job

⚾ THE NUMBERS THAT TELL THE STORY: - 10-17 record, last place AL East, 7.5 games behind the Yankees - .226/.306/.335 team slash line through 26 games - Tied for last in MLB in home runs (18) - Worst OPS against fastballs in baseball (.621) - 1 home run off fastballs all year out of 288 league-wide

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