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Bill Virdon is the all-time winningest manager in Astro history; he won 544 games while leading the Astros to their first postseason berth in 1980 and two division titles. The Houston Astros are a professional baseball franchise based in Houston, Texas. They are a member of the American League West Division in Major League Baseball.
Connie Mack in 1916. Connie Mack is the all-time leader in career wins and losses by a manager. This article contains a list of all Major League Baseball managers with at least 1,000 career regular season wins, a list of managers who have regular season win percentages of at least .540 in at least 400 games (2.5 full seasons), and a list of all-time World Series win-loss records. [1]
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
Valdez, a beguiling lefty who burst out of Houston’s star-making player development operation in 2018, started two of the Astros wins in the World Series, including the clinching Game 6.
On November 5, the Astros defeated the National League champions, the Philadelphia Phillies, in Game 6 of the 2022 World Series, winning Baker his second World Series and first as a manager. At age 73, he is the oldest manager to win the World Series, surpassing Jack McKeon.
Bochy had managed in 2,574 games before earning his first World Series title, which established a record for most games managed to win a World Series that stood for 12 years, when former Giants manager Dusty Baker won the World Series with the Houston Astros. [36] In 2011, the Giants finished 86–76 and missed the playoffs. [37]
The cover boldly predicted that the Astros would be World Series champions in 2017, and was backed up by a story from Ben Reiter . ... The Astros were so bad. Losing 105 games three seasons in a ...
The Astros won franchise-record 107 games during the regular season, but lost to the Washington Nationals 4 games to 3 in World Series. [16] On January 13, 2020, during the offseason, Hinch and Jeff Luhnow , the team's general manager , were suspended one year for violating MLB policies in a sign stealing scandal in 2017 .