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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 .
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 Astros victory in Game 1 of the ALDS gave Dusty Baker his 29th postseason win as the Astros skipper, passing A.J. Hinch to be the most winningest postseason manager in Astros history. They beat the Twins to set the Astros up for another trip to the ALCS, this time against the Texas Rangers.
The team's first manager was Harry Craft, while the first manager under the Astros moniker was Grady Hatton. Bill Virdon is the all-time leader for the most regular-season games managed (1,066) and wins (544), while Phil Garner had won the second most playoff games (7). [155]
[19] [20] Largely on the strength of his final three seasons–all but one of the four 100-win seasons in franchise history at the time of his firing–Hinch ended his tenure as the second winningest manager in Astros history, behind only Bill Virdon. As of the end of the 2019 season, his .594 winning percentage was the highest in franchise ...
Twenty-four managers have led a franchise to two or more 100-win seasons; Sparky Anderson, Whitey Herzog, Tony La Russa, Dusty Baker and Buck Showalter are the only managers to have led multiple franchises to a 100-win season. Joe McCarthy and Bobby Cox have the most 100-win seasons by a manager with six. Seven of the 30 major league franchises ...
Torborg won the 1990 American League Manager of the Year award for leading the Chicago White Sox to a 94-68 second-place finish in the AL West. That was a 25-game improvement from the White Sox's ...
He is only the eighth manager to manage 4,000 games. On September 18, 2019 at Fenway Park, in an 11–3 win over the Boston Red Sox, Bochy won his 2,000th career game as a Major League manager. He is the eleventh manager to win 2,000 games. The other ten managers are all in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. [88]