Of current New York Mets manager Buck Showalter it’s been said: “He’s the best manager never to win a World Series.”
Houston Astros skipper Dusty Baker, meanwhile, has taken five different franchises to the post-season — including two World Series — but has yet to win it all.
The same case could be made for Baker being the top manager with nary a Series title.
Each has turned numerous floundering ballclubs around before failing to win it all in the post-season.
Showalter first made a name for himself when he managed the New York Yankees in the mid-1990s.
The Yanks were then a hapless group that had missed the post-season for over a decade. But Buck managed to steer them to a spot in the play-offs in 1995.
The Yanks were eliminated early in that post-season. And rather than fire most of his coaches, as ordered by tempestuous team owner George Steinbrenner, Buck…
