Posted: Saturday March 29, 2008 09:29AM ET
According to the Wall Street Journal, the Twins' Ron Gardenhire is the best manager in baseball. The publication used a formula based on managers' decision-making in close games, wins above expectations and if they got more out of their players than other managers did. Of the 20 managers ranked, Gardenhire was third in handling close games, fourth in wins above expectations and fifth in player performance. His average score of 4.00 was safely ahead of San Francisco's Bruce Bochy, who was second at 6.00. While the results are interesting (Atlanta's Bobby Cox and St. Louis' Tony La Russa were tied for ninth, for example) it raises the question of whether there's a way, beyond wins and losses, to evaluate the effect a manager has on a team.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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