The baseball manager equivalent to a hockey fight, I’m happy to see Baseball Reference tracks manager ejections. When exploring this statistic, I found something interesting about former New York Mets manager Davey Johnson.
Johnson was ejected 13 times as the Mets manager. His five ejections in 1985 topped the list as a personal best. One thing I did notice is that in 1986 and 1988 Johnson didn’t get ejected at all.
All Mets fans should know what those two years have in common. The 1986 season ended with a championship. The 1988 campaign was nearly as good, but a loss in the NLCS ended the year earlier than many had hoped.