Urgency? The Cincinnati Reds are paying manager Terry Francona and ex-manager David Bell a combined $7.4 million. That's more ...

Francona, raised in a baseball clubhouse as the son of 15-year veteran Tito Francona, is usually the first to arrive and last ...

Close enough isn’t good enough. Progress without the playoffs is failure. Patience is for losers if you're the Cincinnati ...

Rounds of golf and relaxing vacations weren't enough to keep two skippers in their 60s away from the game for long.

Tito, of course, is Terry Francona, the man who came out of retirement ... was their man on the day they met with him at his home in Tucson in October, closing a three-year deal (plus an option ...

Terry Francona got used to getting out of bed whenever he wanted during his year away from managing, and his biggest decision then was whether to have a second cup of coffee before doing the daily ...

It’s still dark outside, but Terry Francona is already swimming ... He and his wife, Amanda, had visited Francona at his Tucson, Arizona, home in February 2024 and left convinced that he was ...

Terry Francona wasn't really thinking about returning to the dugout. That all changed when Reds' President of Baseball Operations Nick Krall and General Manager Brad Meador flew to Tucson ...

Call it the Tito effect. There might be debates over how much impact a manager can have at the big league level, with all of ...