Red Sox Ready To Name Ron Roenicke Manager: Report

The Boston Red Sox are set to have Ron Roenicke fill the last vacant head coaching position in baseball, but are waiting until Major League Baseball's investigation into the team's cheating scandal concludes, according to The Boston Globe's Peter Abraham.

Roenicke, 63, served as Alex Cora's bench coach the past two seasons. He managed the Milwaukee Brewers from 2011-15.

Boston's first spring training game is in two weeks.

Roenicke succeeds Cora, who the Red Sox parted ways with in the wake of a cheating scandal that rocked MLB.

He also takes over a Red Sox team at something of a flux. Mookie Betts and David Price are expected to be traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers after a delay when Boston got hung up on the health of one of the prospects coming back.

The Red Sox still have one of the more talented rosters in baseball and could contend for the playoffs, having won a World Series in 2018.

But that was under Cora and with Betts and Price. It was also when the Red Sox are accused of running a sophisticated sign-stealing operation utilizing the video replay room. That scandal, similar to the one Cora had a hand in when Houston won the World Series the previous year, cost Cora his job one day after the Astros fired their manager and general manager.