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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Saturday, December 18, 2021New York Mets hire Buck Showalter as new manager
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Posted: December 18, 2021 at 03:27 PM | 31 comment(s)
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1. DarrenCasey Stengel
Yogi Berra
Joe Torre
Buck Showalter
Anyone else?
He took over a Yankee team which had been terrible and made about 20 managerial changes in the previous few years and brought it some stability. Arizona was an expansion team. The only times Baltimore's been over .500 in the last quarter-century were under Showalter. I think he'll move the Mets toward contending, and away from LOLMets.
Agreed that it's ex post facto reasoning, but even if it were true, I think the Mets would sign up for 2-3 years of stability and winning, even if they then had to replace him.
Even more generally, managers tend to come and go so quickly that worrying "Yeah, he will win for a few years, but in Year 5 the team will tune him out" seems like a fool's errand. It certainly beats "I worry that this guy will never win", which is what a lot of (most?) managers actually give you...
also "ending with the 1993-94 season," as Keenan quit a month after raising the Cup due to a contract dispute.
the Rangers were the third of mercenary Keenan's eight NHL coaching gigs.
Walt, if you'd only checked your messages ....
Well, his "Good Luck Buck" effect isn't quite as effective as it used to be.
Yankees hired him for a few years, and after they fired him the next manager (Torre) made it to the World Series that year and won (ending a long drought).
Diamondbacks hired him for a few years, and after they fired him the next manager (Brenly) made it to the World Series that year and won.
Rangers hired him for a few years, and after they fired him the next manager (Washington) made it to the World Series a few years later (but lost).
Orioles hired him for a few years, and after they fired him the next manager (Hyde) hasn't done squat with the team.
Buck's just a little short of Keenan's four trips to the finals. Like four.
Can I tell a quick story about why I love Showalter?
Several springs ago, he was down here in Sarasota with the Orioles for spring training, and after the game he started signing autographs, working down the line of kids along the chain-link fence. Just as he got to my kids, some Orioles exec in a suit came up and said Buck was required to be at a scheduled meet-and-greet with some hotshots. Buck glares at the dude, then looks back at my kids and says, if you wait right here, I'll be back in 15 minutes.
He was, and he signed a baseball and a hat for them, and stuff for the rest of the kids that were waiting.
Has anyone picked the "next great manager" recently? Who's the "great manager" out there under age 50?
I don't think the current system allows great managers any more.
Plus Buck is 65, does anyone really think he'll be skipper in five years?
Tony LaRussa glares at you through his monitor.
I'd take my chances with 44-year-old Kevin Cash.
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