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Report: Joey Cora Will Be Pirates New Third Base Coach

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According to a report from Cory Giger of the Altoona Mirror, Joey Cora will be named third base coach for the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Pirates recently fired Rick Sofield, who had been the third base coach for the last two seasons. Cora managed the Altoona Curve to a first place finish in the Eastern League this year, his first seasons as team manager.

Cora played 11 seasons in the majors. He has four years of minor league managing experience, as well as three years as a third base coach for the Chicago White Sox, and six seasons total as a bench coach for the White Sox (five years) and Miami Marlins. Cora also has managerial experience in winter ball in Venezuela.

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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