Just under two weeks remain in the 2024 MLB season, which means that all 30 organizations are beginning to look to 2025. The 12 teams on their way to the playoffs and the 18 teams headed home for the winter will scrutinize everything in the months to come—including the person charged with filling out the lineup card every day.
While their benefits may not show up in the box score, it's hard to deny the steady leadership a good manager can provide. The best ones embody the tactician-psychologist-media relations guru role of the modern manager to a T. The worst, stuck in their ways, can cost their teams games.
