Rate The Skippers

Wednesday, May 05 2004 @ 10:19 AM EDT

Contributed by: Craig B

In honour of Cinco de Mayo, but a propos of nothing in particular, I rated the current MLB managers this morning over on Primer in response to a question. Thought I'd share it with you all and invite your ripostes, comments and abuse.

Current Managers I think are "excellent"

Joe Torre
Bobby Cox
Felipe Alou

Current Managers I think are good

Jack McKeon
Carlos Tosca
Mike Scioscia
Ned Yost
Alan Trammell
Jim Tracy

Current Managers who are good but have significant weaknesses

Frank Robinson
Tony Pena
Dusty Baker

Meh

Terry Francona
Ken Macha
Buck Showalter
Eric Wedge
Bruce Bochy

Current Managers I think are bad

Lou Piniella
Ron Gardenhire
Tony LaRussa
Art Howe
Bob Melvin
Bob Brenly
Clint Hurdle

Current Managers I think are awful

Jimy Williams
Lloyd McClendon

Current Manager who should be locked up in a small metal box on Inaccessible Island

Larry Bowa

Jury's still out

Lee Mazzilli (looks good so far)
Ozzie Guillen (starting to look kinda bad)
Dave Miley (very hard to tell... doing well now with a bad team)

Patron Saint of All Managers

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