Congrats to Buck on becoming the 2nd-winningest manager in modern Oriole history

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Buck is sitting at 48 wins behind Earl Weaver after the 3-0 start.  Of course, he already has 255 more losses than Earl Weaver.

My personal favorite managerial stat is # of games above .500, as I've stated before.  Buck has climbed to 45th all time in this regard (+117) and could find his way past the likes of Jimmy Williams, Dick Williams, Lou Piniella and Clark Griffith this season.  Weaver incidentally is 7th all time (+420).

Showalter probably doesn't make the Hall of Fame unless he manages past his current contract, which I don't think he will do.  He'll be close.

[OFFNY]

On 4/8/2017 at 1:13 PM, OFFNY said:

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25 years ago yesterday, William Nathaniel Showalter III managed his first game ever in the Major Leagues, for the New York Yankees.

Showalter's team won that game, a 4-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium.

 

On his 25th Anniversary of Major League managing yesterday, Showalter's team again won the game, beating ........ the New York Yankees.

 

 

Showalter Celebrating His 2th Anniversary as a Major League Manager

(By Roch Kubatko)

http://www.masnsports.com/school-of-roch/2017/04/showalter-celebrating-a-baseball-anniversary.html

 

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Also, in regard to Showalter's first job as a Major League manager ........ 

 

In my rat's ass of an opinion, Joe Torre walked in on the coattails of what Gene Michael and Buck Showalter had built prior to him getting there. And the Yankees' exorbitant payroll, which topped the Major Leagues throughout the first decade of the new century played a large part in allowing them to remain perennial contenders after they stopped winning World Series in 2000.

After Gabe Paul (the Yankees' G.M from 1973-1977) rebuilt the Yankees back into a power (2 World championships, 4 Pennants, and 5 division titles from 1976-1981), George Steinbrenner's insane temper and compulsiveness with BOTH his managers AND his players drove the Yankees back into a pretty good but no longer great franchise from 1982-1988 (7 out of 8 winning seasons, but no playoff appearances), and finally a bad franchise (4 straight losing seasons from 1989-1992.) It wasn't until Fay Vincent gave Steinbrenner the boot for 2 years in July of 1990 that the Yankees were able to rebuild themselves back into a power again under the guidance of General Manager Gene Michael (1991-1995) and Manager Buck Showalter (1992-1995.) And then along came Torre in 1996, who was a good enough manager not to screw up the great thing that he had in front of him.

 

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