Following the Angels’ promotion of Brad Ausmus to be the second club manager in nineteen years was an uproar of highly intelligent, experienced armchair managers professing their distaste for the hire. While a sufficient sample size of games needs to be played before one may learn whether a manager is capable/successful or not, historical precedent of a manager may point to future managerial tendencies. To gain further insight into Ausmus’s decision-making history (the Tigers manager from 2014-’17), I have asked several contributors from our sister site Bless You Boys to assist, to which they have graciously agreed.
A Brad Ausmus Q&A with several Tigers writers discussing managerial tendencies, organizational inefficiencies, and roster strength
