Manny Acta has never done anything but lose. Is this the sort of thing that should get a manager fired?
A range of responses from players, coaches, and team executives about the most important qualities for a manager to possess.
Ben and Sam discuss sabermetric managerial favorite Davey Johnson’s impact on the Nationals, whether certain managers can make their players play better, and what the ideal relationship between a GM and manager might be.
You think you have what it takes to be a major-league manager? In that case, Russell has several assignments for you.
Is there anything more to a manager’s reputation than the abilities of the players who play for him?
How did closer usage end up where it is now? And is it truly benefiting the game of baseball?
Was Mike Piazza one of the best defensive catchers ever? How does catcher defense age? What effect do managers have on their pitching staffs, and do former catchers really make the best skippers? And how good was Leo Mazzone, really?
A few weeks ago at the BP Pizza Feed in Los Angeles, one of the attendees–sorry, I don’t remember who–asked me what we could
expect from Jeff Torborg in Florida. The Marlins, as you know, have a large stable of young starting pitchers, including perhaps
the game’s top prospect, 22-year-old right-hander Josh Beckett. The questioner wanted to know if there was anything we
could glean from Torborg’s history that would indicate how he might handle the pitching talent on hand.