The game was Johnson's last regular-season home game managing the team. After a lifetime in baseball, Davey Johnson , who managed the Washington Nationals for just over two seasons, has built a resume as both a player and manager that is worthy of a call from the Hall of Fame. As the Nats approach their 14th season here in D.
Even Alex Cora would be likely to take those types of numbers, and he just won a World Series title in his first season as a manager following his own year playing career.
The Hall of Fame summarized it best by saying the following:. Charlie Manuel and Lou Piniella are the only other managers that appear on the ballot. Each of the three has won one world series and six division championships.
Of the three managers, Johnson ranks first in winning percentage at. Johnson, known for turning around ball clubs the minute he arrived in a clubhouse, came to the Washington Nationals in Only two other managers have taken four clubs to the postseason, in Billy Martin and Dusty Baker , in the history of the game.
Johnson, though, ended up in D. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Davey Johnson. History Talk 0. A photo of Davey Johnson.
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Former Nationals' manager Davey Johnson turned 72 today, so we decided to take a quick look back at some of our favorite stories from the skipper's time on the bench in the nation's capital. There hasn't been too much news about former Washington Nationals ' manager Davey Johnson since he was "put out to pasture," as he phrased it, at the end of his second full season on the bench with the Nats in Johnson helped bring postseason baseball back to the nation's capital in , but after a disappointing result in his second full year in D.
Johnson told Washington Post writer James Wagner this past September that he watched every game, "in case they call me," and hadn't quite given up hope that someone would reach out with an offer to return to the bench for an 18th season as a major league skipper.
So far it hasn't happened, though there was word, as noted in the WaPost article, that there was at least one informal inquiry about his availablity. Seemed like as good a time as any to look back on a few of our favorite Davey stories from his time in Washington.
In the leadup to his first series against Baltimore as Washington's manager in , Johnson was asked for some of his favorite memories from his time with the O's he played for from and managed in
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