October 29, 2002
More Catchers
A trend seems to be developing here. Ken Macha is going to manage the A's, and Ned Yost is going to manage the Brewers. Both were catchers with brief major league careers.
Chuck Rosicam has an article at Baseball Library about the large number of managers who are or have been catchers. However, the trend lately has been to hire successful major league catchers. The recent hirings of Macha, Wedge and now Yost seem to be going toward the old trend of career minor league catchers as managers (where's Crash Davis). Again, I'm going to have to do some research on this.
Correction: Ken Macha was not a catcher, but a third baseman. He caught four games in his career, and for some reason, when I looked him up, that's all I saw. Sorry for the confusion.
Posted by David Pinto at
09:33 AM
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