What goes into choosing the perfect manager?
Is it their knowledge of the intricacies of baseball? The deeper understanding of team relationships? Their resumé of coaching success?
It’s probably a combination all of those, but that ain’t what we’re talking about today.
Throw out your wins and losses! Forget your postseason success! A pox on your managerial skills!
It’s ranking season here at Purple Row, so today I’m here to rank the seven managers in Rockies history — Don Baylor, Jim Leyland, Buddy Bell, Clint Hurdle, Jim Tracy, Walt Weiss, and Bud Black — by completing discounting their managerial tenures completely.