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Old 10-10-2025, 07:31 PM
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Default Best players to manage in the major leagues
I read that Albert Pujols is a top candidate to manage the Angels. If he gets the job, he would be the best former player to ever manage at the big league level. Second best is Frank Robinson. Not sure who would be 3, 4 and 5. Thoughts?
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Ted Williams - Not very successful but pretty much four full seasons.
Edit: I was gonna go through all the 20s and 30s player managers but thankfully you mentioned “former” player,
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Yogi Berra, Pete Rose, Joe Torre, Bill Terry, Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, Nap Lajoie, Christy Mathewson, Mel Ott, George Sisler, Tris Speaker, Honus Wagner, Cy Young. There tends to be recency bias in baseball.
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Schoendienst, Hodges, and Bob Lemon were all HOF players.
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A tentative list of best former players to manage,
#1 Ted Williams
#2 Walter Johnson
#3 Albert Pujols ... IF ...
#4 Frank Robinson
#5 Yogi Berra
#5A Pete Rose if no Pujols
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Had to look it up but Rogers Hornsby came back and managed after his playing days in 1952 and 1953
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To be honest, it didn't even occur to me to think about the pre-integration players, much less the pre-war players. Recency bias indeed.
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