Let’s be honest: if you talk to members of the 1968 Tigers, none of them have glowing things to say about Mayo Smith. He later served as general manager of the Mets, guiding the team to a pennant. But he didn’t get the chance to work his way through adversity in Chicago or Detroit. He was a good manager, the type of manager who got a lot out of average teams. By 1967 they were poised to contend, and in 1968 they won it all. Over the next few years under several managers, the Tigers continued to muddle along with 85 or so wins, slowly gaining new talent through their farm system. In 1962 the team won 85 games and sagged to fourth place, and when they got off to a slow start in ’63, the Tigers axed Scheffing.īut Scheffing deserved a better fate. The Yankees finally caught Detroit, but Scheffing still won 101 games in his first season with Detroit. In his first year at the helm, Scheffing had the Tigers in first place into late July behind a powerful lineup that featured Al Kaline, Norm Cash, and Rocky Colavito. In 1961, the Tigers brought “Grumpy Bob” in to manage a team that hadn’t won more than 82 games since 1950. But even though his team was saddled with a terrible pitching staff and poor defense, the Cubs fired Scheffing after the ’59 season. That doesn’t sound like much, but the Cubs hadn’t had two seasons in a row with 70 wins since 1946. In 19 his teams won 72 and 74 games respectively and finished tied for fifth place each season.
ALL TIME MANAGER WINS FULL
In three full years at the Cubs’ helm, Scheffing compiled a 208–254 (.450) record. This was an era when the Cubs were really mediocre, but Scheffing goaded his roster on to the best seasons they had experienced in more than a decade. He guided the Angels to the 1956 PCL championship, which earned him a promotion to the parent Cubs the following season. But he was a good baseball man, and given some better luck might have been one of baseball’s best managers.Ī former catcher, Scheffing got his first chance to manage with the Los Angeles Angels of the Pacific Coast League. So a lot of people probably don’t know who Bob Scheffing was. Here I select the nine best Detroit skippers in franchise history, even those I haven’t had the chance to see manage a game. When he got rankled with them, which seemed often to this 7-year old, he liked to kick dirt on their pant legs.
Ralph had one defining characteristic on the baseball diamond: he hated umpires. The first manager I remember was Ralph Houk, a pear-shaped man who wore glasses to write out his lineup card and enjoyed a good chew of tobacco. I’ve only been cheering on the Old English D in earnest since the mid-1970s. The best managers in the history of the Tigers were not always loved by their players, and in fact a few of them were despised, but all of the good ones had one thing in common: they commanded the clubhouse. He is the only manager in club history to win the award multiple times.Casey Stengel was fond of saying that there were five guys on his team who liked him, and five who hated him, and that the key was keeping the players that hated him away from those who were undecided. This is the third time the award has been earned by Francona throughout his tenure with Cleveland. He remains the club's all-time leader in tenure, 10 seasons, and wins, 845, and is 16th in MLB history with 1,874 career managerial wins. Since 2013, Francona has guided the Guardians to the A.L.'s second best win pct., behind only the New York Yankees. In 2022, the Guardians saw 17 rookies make their MLB debuts. The 2022 club claimed its 11th division title since the A.L. The 2022 club had the youngest roster in the MLB, posting a AL Central Division-winning record of 92-70 (.568), marking the first time in league history a team qualified for postseason play as baseball's youngest team and eigth overall in MLB history. The 63-year-old manager guided the Guardians to their sixth Postseason appearance during his ten-year tenure, including five trips in the last seven campaigns since 2016.
The 2022 club claimed its 11th division title since the A.L.The 63-year-old manager guided the Guardians to their sixth Postseason appearance during his ten-year tenure.Cleveland Guardians' Manager Terry Francona is the American League Manager of the Year, his third time winning it.
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