A healthy dose of managerial changes is nothing new.
When spring training officially opens next week in Florida and Arizona, six teams -- 20 percent -- will have with a different skipper than the one who finished the 2017 season. That carousel was matched as recently as 2015 and 2013 and surpassed by one in 2011.
But there is something different about the Class of 2018. They are generally younger and far less experienced than the current occupants of those 30 coveted jobs. They come not only from the dugout, but from the front office and the broadcast booth.