Major League Baseball's Top 10 Managers of All Time | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors

June 2024 · 2 minute read
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Years Managed: 24 (1926-30 Chicago Cubs, 1931-46 New York Yankees, 1948-50 Boston Red Sox)

Career Record: 2,125-1,333 (.615 winning percentage)

Postseason Appearances (Pennants Won): Nine (nine)

World Series Won: Seven (1932, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1943)

In 24 seasons as a Major League Baseball manager, Joe McCarthy never had a losing record. Even in 1946 and 1950, when he abruptly resigned from the Yankees and Red Sox, respectively, those teams were above .500 when he skipped town.

As a result, he never had a team finish in worse than fourth place in its league, and he went to the World Series nine timesonce with Chicago and eight times with the Yankees. He couldn't quite get the Red Sox to the postseason, though, finishing one game out of first place in both 1948 and 1949.

Though his entire career was impressive, there's no question his apex came with the 1936-43 Yankees. McCarthy's best individual season was 1932 when the Yankees went 107-47 before sweeping the Cubs in the World Series, but he won six more titles during this eight-year stretch.

Led by Joe DiMaggio, Joe Gordon, Red Ruffing and Bill Dickey, those Yankees won 65.2 percent of regular-season games, averaging 99.9 wins per year. With the exception of missing the World Series in 1940, they won the American League by at least a nine-game margin each season.

McCarthy's career winning percentage during the regular season is the best in MLB history, and his postseason winning percentage (.698) is the best among managers who have been to the postseason at least three times.

           

Kerry Miller is a multisport writer for Bleacher Report. You can follow him on Twitter, @kerrancejames.

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