Baseball Playoffs

[dalakhani]

baseball and football are apples and oranges. The role of a manager in baseball and a head football coach are completely different and the two really shouldn't be compared.

If the comparison is in the sense of having a team consistently winning but not winning the title, then comparing to Marv Levy isn't really fair either. Bobby Cox won Manager of the year at least once in the 80's, 90's and 2000's. His teams won 14 straight division titles. Levy's bills were good for about 7 years and really good for 4 and Levy Never won a super bowl...although that doesn't impact my opinion that he was a good coach.

Cox was lifetime 500 games over.500. He is the fourth winningest manager in baseball history.

Over the last forty years, who was better? And if someone was better, what makes that manager better? More world series?

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

baseball and football are apples and oranges. The role of a manager in baseball and a head football coach are completely different and the two really shouldn't be compared.

If the comparison is in the sense of having a team consistently winning but not winning the title, then comparing to Marv Levy isn't really fair either. Bobby Cox won Manager of the year at least once in the 80's, 90's and 2000's. His teams won 14 straight division titles. Levy's bills were good for about 7 years and really good for 4 and Levy Never won a super bowl...although that doesn't impact my opinion that he was a good coach.

Cox was lifetime 500 games over.500. He is the fourth winningest manager in baseball history.

Over the last forty years, who was better? And if someone was better, what makes that manager better? More world series?

Eric Wedge is close

[clyde]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Eric Wedge is close

You think I would disagree with your tongue in Thebby---whoa!! ..I mean cheek remark?




No one has brought up Al Lopez.

40's and 50's,but most probably never heard of him like they probably have McGraw and some of the really old ones.

But a manager's ability to do so is always a function of team talent...in a large part,anyway.

[horseofcourse]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

Over the last forty years, who was better? And if someone was better, what makes that manager better? More world series?

I'd go with Mike Hargrove. Without him cox and leyland would have zero combined championships! He's better because he made them genius'