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Most recent mid-season managerial change for all 30 teamsby Chris JaffeSeptember 30, 2009 Word is, the perpetually underachieving Indians just canned their manager, Eric Wedge. Question: When was the most recent managerial change for all 30 teams. Before checking the list can you guess which team has gone the longest without doing it? Longest in the other league? Well, here they are, bunched by fives for convenience sake. I look at games managed for tiebreakers when multiple teams appear in the same season: 2009 CLE 2009 HOU 2009 DCN 2009 COL 2009 ARI 2008 MIL 2008 TOR 2008 SEA 2008 NYM 2007 CIN 2007 BAL 2005 KCR 2005 PIT 2004 PHI 2003 FLA 2002 CHC 2002 DET 2001 BOX 2001 TEX 2001 TBD 1999 ANA 1998 LAD 1995 STL 1995 CWS 1992 SDP 1990 ATL 1990 NYY* 1986 MIN 1986 OAK 1985 SFG I would've bet anything Minnesota would come out on top, but no. I put an asterick by the Yanks because while B-ref lists it as the same guy for every season, I think Zim officially manged them for a month when Joe Torre had a health problem. It's not an official managerial change, but it was a midseason change nonetheless. (Heck, B-ref notes Pete Rose's month-long ump-bump suspension in its managerial record). History instructor by day, statnerd by night, Chris Jaffe leads one of the most exciting double lives imaginable; with the exception of every other double life possible to imagine. Despite his lack of comic-book-hero-worthiness, Chris enjoys farting around with this stuff. His new book, Evaluating Baseball's Managers is available for pre-order. Chris welcomes responses to his articles via e-mail.
Chris J. said...
Detroit, You’re absolutely right. This is why I need editors. Good catch. Thanks. Posted 09/30 at 02:59 PM
Chris J. said...
I just (very belatedly) read that Wedge will finish out the season. In that case, the most recent Cleveland midseason managerial change was in 2002, when Manuel went down midseason. I assumed he was gone when I heard the news, as that’s normally the case. Then I got all geeked up to look into this so I lept before looking. Good grief. Posted 09/30 at 03:14 PM
Richard Barbieri said...
You’re right about Zimmer, Chris, it was early season in ‘99. Although I’m not sure I really count that as a change, since everyone knew Torre was the guy in charge ultimately. Posted 09/30 at 03:20 PM
Richard Barbieri said...
Also, it took me AGES to figure out what the hell “DCN” was. Posted 09/30 at 03:24 PM
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I think the word “mid-season” is missing from this sentence:
Question: When was the most recent managerial change for all 30 teams.