{"id":385,"date":"2026-05-15T11:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=385"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:03:18","slug":"joe-morgan-the-greatest-interim-manager-in-baseball-history-knows-what-chad-tracy-is-dealing-with-and-other-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=385","title":{"rendered":"Joe Morgan, the greatest interim manager in baseball history, knows what Chad Tracy is dealing with, and other thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p><span>Picked-up pieces while waiting for the Super Bowl rematch when the Patriots visit Seattle Sept. 9 \u2026 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=383\">Praise to the chief: In Trump\u2019s second term, the homage is expected, encouraged, and at times, demanded<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>\u22c5 With the 2026 Red Sox wrapping their third week under \u201cinterim\u201d manager Chad Tracy, it\u2019s time to hear from the greatest interim manager in baseball history, Walpole\u2019s Joe Morgan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhat the hell happened to [Alex] Cora and all those coaches?\u201d Morgan asked when I reached him at his home this past week. \u201cBoston is tough, isn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Not for Joe Morgan, it wasn\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Pull up a chair and listen, young\u2019uns: Way back in 1988, the star-studded, underachieving Red Sox fired crusty skipper John McNamara July 14, and named Morgan \u2014 who\u2019d been their Triple-A manager for nine seasons \u2014 interim manager.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Morgan\u2019s Red Sox ripped off 12 straight wins, and 19 of 20, climbing from nine games out of first to one game back in three torrid weeks. Morgan shed \u201cinterim\u201d six days into the surge and signed a contract extension through 1989 just three weeks after taking over.<\/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>\u201cI guess I won\u2019t have to cut my own cordwood this winter,\u201d Morgan said when he got the security.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span>As the Red Sox\u2019 lineup sputters, \u2018dangerous\u2019 Kyle Schwarber offers a case of what they could have had<\/div>\n<p><span>His team finished 46-31, winning the American League East with an 89-73 record. Morgan went on to win a second division title in 1990.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Going into this weekend, the boring Red Sox \u2014 lurching through their eighth consecutive season of abject mediocrity \u2014 are 8-8 under Tracy, and do not look like candidates for first place this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThat\u2019s the way it usually is with interim managers,\u201d Morgan said this past week. \u201cMost of the time you\u2019re taking over a lousy team. My team wasn\u2019t lousy; they were just playing lousy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Morgan\u2019s \u201988 Sox had Roger Clemens, coming off back-to-back Cy Young seasons, on his way to 354 big-league wins. They had Hall of Famer Jim Rice, who had finished third in MVP voting two years earlier. They had Hall of Fame third baseman Wade Boggs, and Dwight Evans in right field. They had two-time All-Star catcher Rich Gedman, Ellis Burks (352 career homers), and young Mike Greenwell, who finished second in MVP voting in \u201988. They had Hall of Fame closer Lee Smith, 18-game winner Bruce Hurst, former World Series champion\/20-game winner Mike Boddicker, and Oil Can Boyd in the rotation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It is painful to read these names compared with the No-Star, \u201cWild Cards R Us\u201d Red Sox who take the field today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to believe they weren\u2019t doing better when I took over,\u201d recalled Morgan. \u201cI didn\u2019t have to do much to shake things up with that group. I remember I played Jody Reed at short. I was lucky because we had an 11-game homestand. I figured if I won eight of those games I might be named manager for the rest of the year. Well, we won \u2019em all. \u2018Interim\u2019 didn\u2019t last too long, did it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cManaging didn\u2019t bother me one iota, because I knew I could manage. I never considered that there was much difference from managing at Triple-A. The hardest part for me was when you had to make a tough decision with players that you like. But you have to do it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>One of those hard decisions came in the middle of the winning streak at Fenway when Morgan needed a sacrifice bunt to move a runner over in the late innings and sent Spike Owen up to bat for Rice. An unhappy Rice acted out, but Morgan stood up to the slugger, insisting, \u201cI\u2019m the manager of this nine.\u201d The Sox wound up winning in extras on a walkoff homer by Todd Benzinger.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI wasn\u2019t a bunting manager, but I thought we needed one more run in that one, and we did,\u201d recalled Morgan.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span>Sonny Gray and Aroldis Chapman, the Red Sox\u2019 elder statesmen, show there\u2019s more than one way to get outs<\/div>\n<p><span>Morgan turns 96 in November. He\u2019s been battling issues with his lungs and his legs (\u201cmy wheels are not ready to steal second yet\u201d), but he made it to Fenway to throw out a ceremonial first pitch at the home opener in April.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He thinks Tracy will be OK, but noted, \u201cThey need that big bat, don\u2019t they?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Today\u2019s Red Sox interim skipper can\u2019t possibly know much about the Boston baseball experience. Only 40, Tracy didn\u2019t spend any time here until he started managing the WooSox. He can\u2019t be expected to know that every fan in New England thinks he or she knows more about the Red Sox than the manager of the team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=381\">The hantavirus outbreak is prompting COVID flashbacks \u2014 including the conspiracies<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cEverybody played softball or baseball around here,\u201d said Morgan. \u201cAnd they\u2019re all managers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u22c5 Quiz: 1. Bob Cousy (1957), Bill Russell (1958, 1961-63, \u201965), Dave Cowens (1973), and Larry Bird (1984-86) are the only Celtics to win the NBA\u2019s MVP Award. Jaylen Brown is expected to finish among the top five when voting results are announced soon. Name the last four Celtics to finish in the top five in MVP voting; 2: Name Rice\u2019s five Red Sox managers. Minimum one full season. (Answers below.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u22c5 Why Can\u2019t We Get Fans Like This? When Liverpool soccer loyalists \u2014 protesting inflationary price hikes planned over the next three years \u2014 refused to buy food and drinks at Anfield Stadium, Fenway Sports Group changed its mind and rescinded the planned increases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u22c5 Xander Bogaerts is, was, and always will be a better player than Trevor Story. Red Sox broadcasters love Story more than free food, but he\u2019s contributed little in four of his five seasons here. Now the race is on to see if he can strike out more times in a season than Johnny Pesky fanned in a 10-year career that included 5,516 plate appearances. Pesky compiled 218 Ks in a decade of big league hitting. Story went into this weekend with 57 strikeouts in 43 games, a 215-strikeout pace over a full 162.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u22c5 It is mid-May, more than a quarter of the season is gone, and Roman Anthony is hitting .229 with one home run and five RBIs in 30 games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u22c5 Charlie McAvoy is a favorite Bruin, but we all know he deserved six games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u22c5 Always loved Giannis Antetokounmpo. Teased Danny Ainge for taking Kelly Olynyk (via trade) ahead of Giannis in the 2013 draft. But Brown for Giannis is not a good trade for Boston. Milwaukee would do that in an instant. Giannis turns 32 next season and is breaking down. Brown is in his athletic prime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u22c5 The Knicks are on fire as they prepare to start the Eastern Conference finals. They go into this round with seven straight wins by an average score of 125-99. They have not made it to the NBA Finals since 1999, and last won an NBA title in 1973. That\u2019s almost 20,000 days ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u22c5 A young man graduating from UMass this spring was advised to take a photo with the Dr. J statue on campus before leaving Amherst for good and responded with, \u201cWho\u2019s Dr. J?\u201d How is this even possible? In my world, that\u2019d be like graduating from Boston University and asking, \u201cWho\u2019s Martin Luther King?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u22c5 Baseball scribes voting for Hall of Fame candidates today are forced to reevaluate stats of starting pitchers in an era that has seen the end of complete games and 250-inning workhorses. No one is going to win 300 games again. Is 200 wins the new 300? The Globe\u2019s Peter Abraham last weekend made a nice case for former Red Sox lefthander Jon Lester, who\u2019ll be on this year\u2019s ballot with 200 wins, two World Series championships, and a 2.51 ERA in 26 postseason games. Perhaps the ultimate HOF test will come when Jacob deGrom gets on the ballot. His career ERA (2.57) is second only to Clayton Kershaw for starters since 1948, and his strikeout-to-walk ratio (5.41) is tops in baseball history. He won back-to-back Cy Youngs. Swell. Gotta love any pitcher who warms up to the tune of Lynyrd Skynyrd\u2019s \u201cSimple Man.\u201d Unfortunately, this is deGrom\u2019s 13th season, he turns 38 next month, and his career record is <i>99-67<\/i>. Any starting pitcher who has yet to win 100 big league games is a non-starter for my Hall of Fame consideration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u22c5 DeGrom\u2019s former Mets teammate Noah Syndergaard spoke for Mets fans everywhere this past week in an OutKick interview when he stated, \u201c \u2026 at the end of the day, the Mets are gonna \u2018Met,\u2019 and it\u2019s just, I think I\u2019m allowed to say that because I\u2019ve bled orange and blue for, I don\u2019t know, eight years, made it to the World Series with them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span>The NCAA Tournament is too big to fail, but that doesn\u2019t mean they should have made it bigger<\/div>\n<p><span>\u22c5 Walker Allen, son of Basketball Hall of Famer Ray Allen, has committed to play at Emerson with his brother, Ray Allen III. A 5-foot-9-inch point guard from Miami, Walker Allen played a postgraduate year at The Hotchkiss School in Connecticut. His coach at Emerson will be Bill Curley, of Lower Mills\/Duxbury\/Boston College\/NBA fame.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u22c5 Two former Braves managers, both legends (for different reasons), died within three days of each other this past week: Bobby Cox (3,860 regular-season games with the Braves) and Ted Turner (one). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u22c5 If you see \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada 2,\u201d watch for cameos by Karl-Anthony Towns (plays himself at a Miranda Priestly party in the Hamptons) and Rory McIlroy. The Masters champ was approached by the film\u2019s producers after telling reporters he\u2019d relaxed for the final day of the 2025 Players Championship by going back to his room and watching the first \u201cDevil Wears Prada\u201d film.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span>How the Red Sox\u2019 firing its coaches has affected the minor-league affiliates<\/div>\n<p><span>\u22c5 Tim Brown\u2019s Nolan Ryan biography, \u201cNolan: The Singular Life of an American Original,\u201d goes on sale Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u22c5 Anagram of the week: Boston batting avg = Stagnating boob TV.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u22c5 It\u2019s fun to tell grandchildren that the Sox once had a slugging outfielder with a name that included four body parts: Tony Armas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u22c5 Quiz answers: 1. Jayson Tatum (fourth, 2023), Isaiah Thomas (fifth, 2017), Kevin Garnett (third, 2008), Larry Bird (second, 1988); 2. Darrell Johnson (1974-76), Don Zimmer (1976-80), Ralph Houk (1981-84), John McNamara (1985-88), Morgan (1988-89).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=379\">Powell\u2019s legacy at the Fed to be shaped by his misjudging inflation and standing up to Trump<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I never considered that there was much difference from managing at Triple-A,&#8221; Morgan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","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>Joe Morgan, the greatest interim manager in baseball history, knows what Chad Tracy is dealing with, and other thoughts - 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