With the Boston Red Sox vastly underperforming expectations, one prominent Boston sports commentator predicts manager Alex Cora will be fired in the next month.

Let’s start with his contract, which was agreed to last July and kicked in at the start of this season. If the Red Sox terminated him now, they’d owe him about $20 million. The Red Sox have eaten bigger contracts in the past, but they’re not about to walk away from a manager less than three months into a three-year deal.

Former Red Sox hero Kevin Millar still has faith in Red Sox manager Alex Cora despite the team's dismal play Former Boston Red Sox folk hero Kevin Millar still has faith that manager Alex Cora can turn the struggling team around despite the many problems Boston has had through the first third of the season.