09-30-2019, 02:35 AM
Quote:Believe current thinking / research is that managers have small impact on overall season record so managers value has been historically over estimated.Yeah, I've heard this too, and admittedly not looked into it, but it's hard to picture the methodology that could show this. You obviously have no control group, and if you're looking at the same players with different managers, you're doing so year-over-year and even then, who is to say what makes for a good manager or a bad one, beyond wins? So much of what a manager does is not easily quantified. If the manager's decisions (assuming they're reasonable) don't impact a game enough to to make a significant difference in wins and losses over a season, that I get, but that's only a part of what they do.
I love and will miss Joe. As an in-game guy I wasn't a huge fan at times. Overall though, I think he did a ton to get the team ready and confident enough to win a world series. In recent years, his unwavering and calm confidence and non-reactive nature may not have been what this team needed though.