'I know a lot of people back home are very excited about it, they’re very proud of it. It should be a fun day.' ShiDavidi on Tuesday's historic meeting between Charlie Montoyo and Alex Cora:
, the first clash featuring two native born Puerto Rican managers will certainly be a moment worth celebrating.
“Get a chance like did. Get a chance like I have now. Just a chance,” says Montoyo. “That’s all I can say about it. And that’s in my mind whenever I’m doing my job. I want to do the best job I can. So hopefully somebody else gets the chance to manage, also.”“There’s a reason the Blue Jays liked Charlie Montoyo, there’s a reason he got the job – he went to that room and impressed everybody,” he says.
In 1999, Major League Baseball implemented what’s known as the Selig Rule, named after former commissioner Bud Selig, which requires teams to interview a minority candidate for any managerial or front office opening.
Cora isn’t against the rule, but he isn’t for it, either, since he doesn’t think it makes much sense to force teams into interviewing someone who wasn’t on their radar. Occasionally, surprises do happen and someone unexpectedly emerges, but the chances of that are very slim, leaving prospective candidates to have their hopes raised and dashed year after year. Cora remembers his brother going for an interview with a team that didn’t know Joey had attended Vanderbilt.
“I’m glad he got the job,” says Alou. “He’s going to help the development of the young players because he’s been around that part of the game. He’s going to do well with the older players because they will respect the fact that he’s a very knowledgeable baseball man. I know the people in Tampa and they know they lost a great baseball man.”
“When we got to Pasadena, he called me. ‘I can’t believe you texted me, you’ve got a lot of stuff going on,’” Cora recalls. “I’m like, ‘Come on, brother.’ I was very proud of him.”
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