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An interesting thing to me about catchers as managers by sprack

is that there have been so many of them in baseball history. And It didn't matter if they were terrible hitters like those we've mentioned or great hitters like Yogi Berra and Joe Torre, so many have been successful. In contrast, there are really pretty few pitchers who became managers. Yes, Tommy Lasorda, Roger Craig, Bob Lemon, etc. but the numbers are pretty small for such a large group of players, and I would bet my life that in baseball history there are more catchers as managers than pitchers.

And just looking at the list of managers right now in MLB, there are only 2 pitchers (Pat Murphy and Bud Black) but there are 8 catchers by my count - besides Melvin, Bochy and Hinch, there's Brandon Hyde, Pedro Grifol, Scott Servais, Kevin Cash and Brian Snitker.

As I said, it's interesting but not the least bit surprising. They're the field generals.