Buck Showalter: MLB's Unluckiest Manager

[@Filmansen]

Perfect time for this to be recommended to me.

[@rorye6952]

:(

[@Thatguy1andonly]

yeah, I feel you

[@19MichaelDixon]

As an Os fan, I LOVE Buck. I could listen to him talk baseball for hours

[@MaddMan621]

Yep.

[@abestergamesta]

I’m surprised you don’t have more subscribers. Your content is well researched and presented. Top notch stuff.

[@reidye]

Gonna be fun watching this channel blow up

[@BaseballAF]

I'll be able to watch this in about an hour, but I'm guessing it's a certified BANGER, myself a biased Met fan

[@AndThatsBaseball]

I liked it personally

[@YoureNotReet]

Buck has a brilliant baseball mind

[@TheNewNumberTw0]

Watching this in November of 2022 makes me sad as a Mets fan.

[@JR-zu9jk]

Joe Madden with the Allen Iverson 😂😂😂

[@kevinminer1293]

5:50 "His best relievers had struggled all series long." Facutally inaccurate. Bob Wickman and Mariano Rivera had a combined ERA of 0.00. Not knowing which pitcher to use in a given situation illustrates that Buck didn't know how to handle his pitchers in 1995, and as his recent failure with the Mets shows, he hasn't learned from his mistakes. Otherwise, a great synopsis.

[@AndThatsBaseball]

Mariano Rivera wasn’t that guy yet. Wetteland was the shut down guy at the time, and he had a brutal series. Don’t think it’s fair to blame him for not trusting Mo over Wetteland in ‘95

[@kevinminer1293]

@@AndThatsBaseball Buck Showalter *did* trust Mo over Wetteland in Game 5. Mariano Rivera struck out Mike Blowers on three pitches with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 8th inning. However, as you correctly stated in the video, Showalter left David Cone in the game too long. Cone didn't lose the game, though. That distinction belongs to Jack McDowell, whom Showalter brought in the following inning. Rivera was dominant in the 1995 ALDS. In 5.3 innings, he allowed three hits, struck out eight, and walked one batter intentionally. Yet Showalter pulled Rivera after facing just three batters in Game 5. Why? Granted, he wasn't the designated closer st that point in his career, but he essentially castrated the potent Seattle offense. Furthermore, while it's certainly true that Wetteland's performance in the 1995 ALDS was utterly abysmal (14.54 ERA), the following year he was the World Series MVP. What changed? With Showalter gone, and former catcher Joe Torre at the the helm, properly timed pitching changes were the difference between an emberassing early postseason exit and a World Series Championship. Not once did Buck Showalter use Wetteland in a save situation in the 1995 ALDS, but Torre saved Wetteland exclusively for this role and the results speak for themselves. Is it really fair to say that Buck Showalter was unlucky, or is it more accurate to say that former catchers Joe Torre and Bob Brenly are simply better at understanding how to manage a pitching rotation?

[@michaelleto9296]

Gonna need a p2

[@AndThatsBaseball]

That vid would be like 35 seconds long

[@Ryder021]

Welp he fuckded up again with the Mets

[@AndThatsBaseball]

I wouldn't say he did anything wrong. He's not the one who got shut out last night

[@MFmadlib15]

Well this aged well

[@AndThatsBaseball]

I still think Buck is a good choice for the Mets, but this loss was rough

[@michaellopez6295]

This aged well😂💀

[@AndThatsBaseball]

I mean buck didn’t do anything to lose this series, his bats just got shut down

[@michaellopez6295]

@@AndThatsBaseball I completely agree with you. He wasn’t at fault. The offense didn’t do anything last night

[@lyndarocha8846]

If he brings them bad luck...hell yes.

[@AndThatsBaseball]

Cmon let’s be nice here, I’m no Mets fan but I’d like NY sports to be great again, we’re in shambles right now 😂

[@lyndarocha8846]

@@AndThatsBaseball Just tired of the fact that is all Yahoo writes about...the Mets. The Giants were in a fight for their lives, and it was DeGrom's injury day in and day out. I am tired of East Coast bias. Everyone knows the best coast is the West coast.

[@AndThatsBaseball]

That's fair, NY sports media picks up the dumbest stories to talk about. I think we need more baseball coverage in general, national networks like ESPN and Fox Sports talk more about how baseball is dying than the actual stories.

[@billmcg1676]

Like looking into the crystal ball of the Mets 2022 playoff run... I see, I see...one word: conspEARacy Mr. Bucky... And the crystal has gone dark...lmao 😂😂😂

[@AndThatsBaseball]

Buck was on his twitter feed and saw the low quality pic of Musgrove's ear that blew up so he had to get it checked

[@Cracker_Barrel_Kidd_55]

Tomorrow will tell.

[@garpfunkel2876]

I never forgave Buck for throwing away the 2016 Wild Card game based on his dumb hunch.

[@AndThatsBaseball]

Britton had a top 3 relief season of the decade it’s really insane to look back at that

[@TheTEN24]

Buck doesn’t feel like a good fit now that he’s in his second year here. My last hope is the Mets win it all the year after he leaves lol

[@tomdaless2435]

The LOCKOUT proved challenging in 2022 because a NEW manager had ZERO legal access to his team/players during the "off season". Buck teaching the rule book was just ONE EXAMPLE of a quality manager making a difference. While deGrom (only 11 starts), FRONT OFFICE Billy Eppler DH trade/choices, & the loss of Sterling Marte (who got beamed on his hand) are reasonable examples of things OUT OF THE MANAGER'S CONTROL that had the NY Mets one game OUT of the coveted WS path. Was Dusty Baker CONSIDERED a "choke artist". A shit hit piece if you ask me. Buck is a quality human being. And a GREAT manager... period! Many GREAT baseball PLAYERS have never won a WS too! They must all be choke artists (according to this idiot)... Meanwhile, player Terrance Gore has 2 WS rings & can't even crack an MLB starting lineup! There are MANY GREAT players & coaches that haven't won across ALL team sports.

[@chrisuncleahmad789]

Luckiest manager: Ned Yost Royals won a World Series in spite of him

[@SGBassplayer]

This means that the next skipper the Mets hire wins them the World Series, then?

[@AndThatsBaseball]

Perhaps… but it didn’t work for the O’s

[@kushclarkkent6669]

Beltran?

[@idgaf9333]

9 months too late lol

[@AndThatsBaseball]

Too late?

[@joshphillips9033]

Blowing Diaz might bite him tonight, you make your own luck

[@idgaf9333]

@@AndThatsBaseball yes lol

[@AndThatsBaseball]

Too late for what

[@benk6153]

LOL Mets

[@Sammhm123]

Managers don’t really do that much, all they really do is (proceeds to name almost every aspect of playing a game)

[@AndThatsBaseball]

Damn I made this a while ago but I forgot I said managers hit, pitch, field, run, and throw

[@JunkYardCardGuy]

"Analylitcally inclined?" Beat it, dweeb. Analytics only exist so kids who don't know the game, can somehow feel connected. Ask Manny Machado about fWAR, and he'd slsp you in the mangina.

[@AndThatsBaseball]

Is this ironic or are you really that stupid?

[@nickhughes8179]

Manny Manchowder is a Mangina.

[@johnrotten3268]

dudes a bum. Micromanaging is his MO and it never helps...