Alex Cora is no Memphis Grizzlies Hats longer the manager of the Boston Red Sox. Cora, who's in the middle of sign-stealing scandals with two separate teams, lost his job Tuesday night as theCora was the second manager to lose his job in as many days. On Monday, Major League Baseball handed out punishments stemming from the ' sign-stealing scandal. Chief among them were season-long suspensions for now-former GM Jeff Luhnow and manager A.J. Hinch -- who were both subsequently fired., but there are still two questions worth asking as we move forward: what should and what will Cora's punishment be? We decided to offer our thoughts as a staff.How Cora be punished?R.J. Anderson: It's hard to say what the punishment "should be" because we lack precedent. The obvious answer is a season-long suspension, the same as Hinch and Luhnow. A more aggre sive suggestion is a lifetime banishment on the grounds that Cora's improper behavior may have impacted two of the past three World Series. Major League Baseball cannot afford to have people questioning the integrity of games, not with legalized gambling coming into the fold. Banning Cora would send that me sage. (Do note: Manfred probably could've justified banning and/or others involved here, too, since Cora wasn't some lone actor.) Mike Axisa: I think it should be very significant, with a lifetime ban on the table. Cora was named 11 times in Manfred's report -- he was the only non-player implicated in the sign-stealing scheme Jahlil Tripp Jersey -- and, taking a step back and look at the big picture, two of the last three World Series winners either have been or will be punished for cheating. Cora was in a position of power with both teams. That looks real bad. We already know he played a significant role in Houston's scheme. . Chances are he will implicated in Boston's scheme too, so he's a repeat offender with multiple teams. A one-year suspension and getting fired a la A.J. Hinch feels like Cora's best-case scenario right now.Matt Snyder: Yeah, I think it seems easy to say that Cora should get at least a two-year suspension. The obvious answer is he was due one year from the Astros' scandal and then took acted similarly with the Red Sox. So one year for each. Now, it's probably reasonable to argue there should be a multiplier effect, especially if the Red Sox investigation finds that they weren't doing anything until Cora arrived. If that's the case, I think there should be a multiplier and I'd say his suspension should be at least 2 1/ Mike Conley Jersey 2 years and probably even three.Dayn Perry: To repeat what everyone else has said, this is worse than Hinch's pa sive role. Manfred's report says Cora was involved in coming up with and executing the system in Houston. That alone warrants a stiffer penalty than what Hinch received. Then he goes to Boston and implements a cheating scheme -- albeit one that's somewhat more "old school" than the trash-banging thing -- and does after has expre sly told teams that the video replay room is not to be used for sign-stealing. In e sence, Cora was a central party to two cheating scandals (a suming he was aware of what was going on in Boston), and the latter one occurred after all teams were warned by the league. If Cora had a material role in what the Red Sox were doing in 2018, which seems highly likely, then he should be hammered. A lifetime ban should be in the range of po sibilities. I'd say five years, which is probably tantamount to a lifetime ban. Katherine Acquavella: Rob Manfred's investigation determined that Cora was heavily involved in the Astros sign-stealing scheme in 2017; he was found to have come up with the entire cheating scheme and found to have helped players execute the system in Houston. If Cora was an active developer and participant in the cheating scandal with the Astros, then it can be a sumed that Cora then brought those Justin Holiday Jersey same elements of sign-stealing to the Red Sox when he joined the club as a first-year manager in 2018. His punishment should be match the severity his involvement in these cheating scandals, and result in a two- or three-year suspension from the league. When all is said and done, the illegal use of technology to steal signs now forever taints the 2017 and 2018 World Series -- and Cora's legacy as a coach.How Cora be punished?R.J. Anderson: I would a sume Cora's punishment will be harsher than either Luhnow's or Hinch's, and it wouldn't shock me if he was indeed suspended indefinitely. He was named as one of the ringleaders Jaren Jackson Jr. Jersey in a way they weren't, after all. Rob Manfred has shown he's willing to deploy that option if he deems it nece sary, and I suspect he feels the need to make an example out of someone here, with that someone being Cora.Mike Axisa: My gue s is Cora gets slapped with a two-year suspension by Manfred. The Astros already set a precedent firing Hinch and Boston would have looked lenient if they didn't dismi s Cora. A two-year suspension in addition to being fired by the team is what I think will happen. I do wonder whether Manfred's discipline with include something beyond a suspension, like Cora being ineligible to be employed as uniformed personnel once his suspension ends. Matt Snyder: I'll echo above and say it's going to be two years. It's the easy path and this is unprecedented ground. Would Manfred really go crazy and go further than the two years? Sure, it's po sible. I just think we're in the early stages here and two years will be the penalty.Dayn Perry: I think it's going to be at least three years for reasons laid out above. I can also see a lifetime ban or MLB at least stipulating that Cora can never work as uniformed personnel at the MLB level. I'll say three years.Katherine Acquavella: I'm predicting that Manfred will hand Cora a two-year suspension. If Cora is found as culpable as he appears to be in this report on the Astros, it's a given that things will look worse when the investigation is completed into the 2018 Red Sox. If the league was investigating Houston's sign-stealing, then maybe Cora could have skated by without major consequences from the league -- or at least the same one given to Hinch and Luhnow. However, Cora was found to be an active and Marc Gasol Jersey direct participant in the Astros scheme and then appears to have perpetrated wrongdoing as Boston's manager. He's destined to get hit hard by Manfred.