| Buck Showalter | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Showalter with the New York Mets in 2023 | |
| Manager | |
| Born: May 23, 1956 DeFuniak Springs, Florida, U.S. | |
Batted: Left Threw: Left | |
| MLB statistics | |
| Managerial record | 1,727–1,664 |
| Winning % | .509 |
| Managerial record at Baseball Reference | |
| Teams | |
| As coach
As manager | |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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William Nathaniel "Buck" Showalter III (born May 23, 1956) is an American professional baseball manager. He served as manager of the New York Yankees (1992–1995), Arizona Diamondbacks (1998–2000), Texas Rangers (2003–2006), Baltimore Orioles (2010–2018) and New York Mets (2022–2023). He also is a former professional Minor League Baseball player and television analyst for ESPN and the YES Network.
Showalter has earned a reputation for building baseball teams into postseason contenders in short periods of time.[1] He helped the Yankees rise from the bottom half of the AL East to first place before a players' strike prematurely ended the 1994 campaign.[2] Under his watch, the Diamondbacks made their first-ever playoff appearance in only the second year of the team's existence.[3] Despite this reputation, Showalter has never appeared in a World Series; coincidently, he left both the Yankees and Diamondbacks just prior to seasons when they won the World Series.[1] Since Dusty Baker's win in the 2022 World Series, Showalter has become the winningest active manager in MLB never to win a World Series. In 22 seasons, he has reached the postseason six times, reaching the League Championship Series once.
A three-time American League (AL) and one-time National League (NL) Manager of the Year, he is the third manager to win four Manager of the Year awards, the seventh to win the award in both the American and National Leagues, and the only one to win the award with four different teams and in four different decades.
- ^ a b Solotaroff, Paul (April 2011). "Is This Man Too Smart for Baseball?". Men's Journal. Archived from the original on September 2, 2012.
- ^ "New York Yankees Team History & Encyclopedia". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved February 18, 2016.
- ^ "Arizona Diamondbacks Team History & Encyclopedia". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved February 18, 2016.