Since August Terry Francona has talked about 2023 being his final season as Guardians manager. On Tuesday, at the postmorteum of the season, the Guardians made it official.
that he was considering walking away at the end of the year. On Wednesday, Cleveland’s last home game, the team handed out 20,000 “Thank you Tito’ T-shirts to fans attending the game. But this is the way Francona wanted to bow out.
It is the one mountain Francona couldn’t climb with the Guardians, failing to bring a World Series title to Cleveland as he did in 2004 to Boston to break the Curse of the Bambino. Cleveland’s last World Series title was in 1948. The Baseball Writers Association of America voted Francona AL Manager of the Year in 2013, 2016 and 2022 during his stay in Cleveland. He led the Red Sox to World Series titles in 2004 and 2007, but never won the award as Boston’s manager.
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