Yankees Manager Hunt

Now the Yankees need a manager.  Because they played into the League Championship Round, the Yanks missed out on the sort of top industry managerial candidates, but that's probably okay.  The Yanks have only had 3 Managers in the last 25 years, so they're not really one of those teams that picks a new skipper every few years or so, like the Mets or someone.   Most of those 25 years were taken up by just Torre and Girrardi.  But I think the current situation should produce someone like Buck Showalter.  That is someone from the system.

Back when Buck took over, Stick Michael had used George Steinbrenner's suspension to rebuild the Yankee system into a winning machine.  So Buck who'd come up through the system, blocked by Mattingly as a player, before becoming a coach, became the manager.  Stick was wise enough to let the system produce the manager.  Then the Boss came back, fired Nardi Contreras and Buck quit.  

Right now, the Yanks are back where they were in the mid-90s, with an amazing system, and they should probably let that system produce the new manager.

That's not just a desirable efficiency.  One of the problems I had with Girardi's Yanks, was that they didn't grind out their AB's.  That's something that's been preached in the Yankee system going back to Miller Huggins, Ed Barrow, and Joe McCarthy, but it was being dropped at the ML level by a lack of emphasis by the coaching staff.   I think it would be optimal, to have the prospects learn one way to do things in Rookie Ball, and end up doing the same things when they make the bigs.

From the `30s to the `50s, the Yanks had a ton of middle infielders, but whomever was playing SS and 2B was able to turn DP's at a greater than expected rate.  That's been the secret weapon of every Yankee winner.  Though when they have a guy like Soriano or Castro playing second, they probably turn them at a less than expected level, and surprise! They don't win.

That's what an effective system can do, like that had in the Barrow Era, the Weiss Era and the Stick Era.  That's what they should be doing again, and the new Yankee Manager should know about things like that, and GRINDING.