Red Sox manager Alex Cora says bigger bases ‘look like a pizza box’

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Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora is fine with Major League Baseball’s rule changes heading into the 2023 season, but the size of new bases has caught his eye. 

MLB has increased the size of the bases – excluding home plate – from 15 inches to 18 inches, with the hope that it will reduce injuries and increase stolen bases. 

Red Sox manager Alex Cora addresses the media after the final game of the season on Oct. 6, 2022, at Fenway Park in Boston. (Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images)

"The bases, they’re the bases," Cora told reporters on Tuesday. "Wait until you see them. They look like a pizza box, to be honest with you."

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"Talking to the minor league coaches and everybody that used the rules last year, it’s not that all the sudden we’re going to steal 100 bags with a guy," he continued. "The value of the outs is still in play, and you get 27. So you have to be smart. You have to be efficient." 

The larger bases are just one of three notable changes implemented by Major League Baseball heading into the 2023 season. 

Baseball has implemented a pitch clock that gives pitchers 30 seconds in between batters to deliver to the plate, 15 seconds in between pitches with the bases empty, and 20 seconds in between pitches with runners on base. 

Alex Cora of the Boston Red Sox watches the game against the Orioles at Camden Yards on Aug. 20, 2022, in Baltimore. (Greg Fiume/Getty Images)

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The pitch clock reduced minor league games by about 26 minutes last season, according to a report by