who is best manager in baseball? i say joe torre with 7 world series appearances in 11 years!?

Question

and also jim leyland of detroit!!

Answer 1

Leyland won 3 division titles with Pittsburgh, Word Series with Florida and AL Pennant with Detroit. All 3 teams had one thing in common. Less talent than the Yankees, so Torre does not rank as the best.

Answer 2

you have the right answer to the wrong question

who IS the best manager in baseball?? jim leyland. he turned around that last place tiger team into not just playoff, but World Series contenders

now

who is the best manager in the last 10, 15, or 20 years?? joe torre with his 7 appearances and 4 rings since 1996. numbers dont lie

Answer 3

Jim Leyland of Detroit

Answer 4

Bobby C. for MANY reasons. 1 -- all those division titles (except last year). 2 -- not trying to tell Schuerholz (spelling?) how to run the team. 3 -- Proving that it wasn't Leo Mazzone that made them so good (although I loved Leo in ATL and he IS a brilliant pitching coach). 4 -- look at the ejections, and now let me explain why that doesn't just mean he's got a temper. Guys know he will defend them no matter what. He's always got their back when he thinks they're right, and sometimes even if they're not. This does two things. It makes the players want to play for him, even if they don't come right out and say it, improving morale. Second, it shows that he knows he is not what makes the team run -- they can win with him on the bench or in the clubhouse. That kind of faith in your team, to know that you don't always have to be looking over their shoulders, rubs off on the team. Torre never had that, never will. Leyland to a point, but not as long as Cox, and he barely did it in Pittsburgh.

Answer 5

Managers are as good as the teams they manage - that's not to knock Torre, but I think most managers would have been able to have the same success with a superstar-laden team.

I think those managers who are good with players are the best. Jim Leyland is a good example, Bruce Bochy another. I personally feel that managing the personalities of a team is more difficult than the "strategy" part of baseball.

Answer 6

Jim Leyland or Tony LaRussa (i mean he is a drunk turd but still a great manager)!

If I have to pick though, then I take the only guy to win The Fall Classic with two different teams and that's Tony.

Best regular season Skipper, Bobby Cox.

I'm skeptical of Torre only because before NY he wasn't that great of a manager. I think he is good but not great and more a product of his environment.

Answer 7

he is a good manager, but he has also has an owner with a huge payroll to buy everyone they want.

I would go with Leyland of the 2 because he has had teams with alot lower payrolls Marlins & Tigers and still made it to the World series unfortunantly beating my Indians in 1997.

Wedge may command respect but he does some things that just piss me off. That is the only reason I don't pick Wedge.

Answer 8

I have to go with Jim Leyland. Bouncing a team back from a season like the Tigers had in '05 was great.

Answer 9

That is a difficult question. Torre's success has been reliant on being able to manage the highest payroll in baseball. Tony LaRussa might be the smartest, but has never been that great in October. I hate Bobby Cox, but who can argue his success the last fifteen years with the Braves making the playoffs fourteen straight years. However, if you had to win one game, I'd go with Terry Francona of Boston.

Answer 10

Torre isn't in the top three in my opinion. With such a huge payroll, I could manage the Yankees

Wedge, Leyland, Scosia