{"id":2130,"date":"2026-06-07T04:04:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T04:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2130"},"modified":"2026-06-07T04:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T04:04:31","slug":"for-red-sox-chad-tracy-a-small-world-full-circle-montreal-moment-with-the-yankees-luis-rojas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2130","title":{"rendered":"For Red Sox\u2019 Chad Tracy, a small-world, full-circle Montreal moment with the Yankees\u2019 Luis Rojas"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p><span>NEW YORK \u2014 Among the noteworthy moments that have marked these initial days of<b> Chad Tracy\u2019s <\/b>major league career, a heartwarming one came Friday: Yankees third base coach <b>Luis Rojas <\/b>made a point to say hello to and chat with the Red Sox\u2019 interim manager during pregame goings-on. Later, before first pitch, they exchanged lineup cards at home plate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2128\">Golden Tempo wins Belmont Stakes after historic victory at Kentucky Derby with trainer Cherie DeVaux<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>They had not seen each other in decades. But from 1995-98, Tracy\u2019s father, <b>Jim Tracy<\/b>, was the bench coach for the Expos and manager <b>Felipe Alou<\/b>, Rojas\u2019s dad.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span>On baseball | Passionate Willson Contreras hopes his fire, leadership can ignite a renewed Red Sox\u2019 playoff push<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>The small-world, full-circle occasion had Tracy smiling wide a day later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Baseball, man.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIsn\u2019t it crazy?\u201d Tracy said Saturday before the Red Sox and Yankees were rained out at Yankee Stadium. \u201cYou go down the line 20 years and the connections are really cool.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Back then, Tracy and Rojas were baseball kids living the baseball life. Rojas, four years older, spent time with the more grown children, hanging around fielding drills and batting practice and the like with Expos players. But he has distinct memories of the Tracy brothers \u2014 Brian, Chad, Mark \u2014 playing stickball in the parking garage underneath Montreal\u2019s Olympic Stadium.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span>Get Starting Point<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><label>Enter Email<\/label><\/p>\n<div><button>Sign Up<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>A generation later, they have their own families and their own careers, which crossed paths this weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cMy dad\u2019s relationship with Felipe was incredible,\u201d Tracy said. \u201cHe\u2019ll tell the stories about him to this day about how much he learned from him. So that was cool \u2014 just to see him again and also know that our fathers had such a good relationship.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Felipe Alou, whose paternal last name is Rojas but who went by Alou after an early-career clerical error assigned him his maternal last name, became a big-time influence for Jim Tracy, who went on to manage three major league teams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Jim Tracy, in turn, of course, shaped Chad Tracy as a manager (and as a person).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In a way, then, Alou influenced Chad Tracy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHe learned a lot from him, and I learned a lot from my dad,\u201d Tracy said. \u201cThat was my dad\u2019s first job in the big leagues, being the bench coach with Felipe Alou, so just to hear over time \u2014 even I remember conversations as a kid, how he spoke about him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Jim Tracy, 70, and Alou, 91, have long since fallen out of touch. Their sons want to get them on a call.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2126\">Fleet losing Alina M\u00fcller to expansion team in Hamilton<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAwesome,\u201d Chad Tracy said.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>Personnel news<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>The Red Sox put reliever <b>Jovani Mor\u00e1n<\/b> on the 10-day injured list because of left elbow inflammation. They called up <b>Alec Gamboa<\/b>, another lefthander, from Triple-A Worcester to replace him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Gamboa can \u201cgive us some length if we need it,\u201d Tracy said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAt this point, it doesn\u2019t look [like Mor\u00e1n has structural damage or will need an MRI], especially if he continues to throw,\u201d Tracy said. \u201cBut we\u2019ll see what they want to do with him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>Chapman stays loose<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><b>Aroldis Chapman<\/b>, managing a sore left hamstring, did some light stretching\/agility drills under the careful eye of an athletic trainer Saturday afternoon. Then he played catch with a football, complete with pretty clean spirals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He seems fine enough to avoid the IL, even if the Sox have to be careful with his leg.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIf it got to a point where we feel like we can\u2019t do it, we won\u2019t do it,\u201d Tracy said. \u201cWe\u2019re always talking with Aroldis on that too.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>Man of mystery<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><b>Triston Casas\u2019s<\/b> surgically repaired left knee is effectively back to normal, but he still is working his way back from an abdominal strain that derailed his progress more than two months ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Is there a window in which he could help the Red Sox?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI think so. I think that\u2019s probably getting a little bit ahead of ourselves, given just where he is right now,\u201d chief baseball officer <b>Craig Breslow<\/b> said. \u201cBut you look at what he\u2019s done when he\u2019s healthy, and he\u2019s a guy that doesn\u2019t really chase outside the strike zone, can hit the ball out of the park. Those are things that would be really, really helpful to us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>Whitlock update<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><b>Garrett Whitlock <\/b>(left knee inflammation) threw 21 pitches in a scoreless inning for Worcester on Saturday in his first and potentially only rehab appearance. He walked two batters and gave up a hit, inducing a double-play grounder to escape a bases-loaded, one-out jam. \u201cSo long as he comes out and says, \u2018I felt great,\u2019 that\u2019ll be the most important thing,\u201d Tracy said . . . The Yankees called up <b>Ali Sanchez<\/b>, who played in four games with the Sox last year, to be their new backup catcher. Sanchez, 29, has totaled 50 games with five teams since 2020. <b>Austin Wells<\/b> went on the IL with cervical headaches . . . Most strikeouts as a reliever, major league history, entering Saturday: 1. <b>Hoyt Wilhelm<\/b> with 1,363. 2. Chapman with 1,357.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2124\">Knicks, up 2-0 in NBA Finals, say the job is far from over. And the Spurs aren\u2019t conceding anything.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 1995-98, Tracy\u2019s father, Jim Tracy, was the bench coach for the Expos and manager Felipe Alou, Rojas\u2019s dad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>For Red Sox\u2019 Chad Tracy, a small-world, full-circle Montreal moment with the Yankees\u2019 Luis Rojas - Boston Relocation Insider<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2130\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"For Red Sox\u2019 Chad Tracy, a small-world, full-circle Montreal moment with the Yankees\u2019 Luis Rojas - 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