Manager (baseball)

The manager ( to manage in Europe) is the name given to the principal Entraîneur of a team of Baseball. He is assisted by a whole of instructors which advises it and which deals with the various aspects of the play, like the drive of the launchers or the frappeurs.
The manager remains in the shelter of the players during the match and makes the strategic decisions during the part, like withdrawing or replacing players during the meeting. Before the beginning of the match, it establishes the alignment of the nine strikers which will be presented to the stick. It, is generally advised to him sometimes by the instructor of the launchers or the instructor of the enclosure of changing, which chooses to carry out a change of lanceur.
The manager is usually equipped with the same uniform which the players and seldom leaves the shelter of the players. He can go on the monticule to discuss the tactic or to carry out the change of launcher during the meeting. More rarely, it can have to discuss an arbitration decision, which can carry out in certain cases to rather muscular exchanges being balanced sometimes by the expulsion of the manager. Bobby Cox is managing it in activity with the most expulsions with its credit (130 at May 30th, 2007 in addition to 3200 matches).
In the flow chart of a club, the manager has as hierarchically superior the Managing director (English: general manager ) to which one often refers in the sporting jargon by the abbreviation " DG". The managing director is the person in charge of the recruitment of the players, the instructors and the manager. He negotiates the contracts and the exchanges with other clubs, but does not intervene in the decisions taken in the course of match.

In major League of baseball, many managers marked the history of baseball, of which Connie Mack, Casey Stengel, Yogi Berra, Tommy Lasorda, Joe McCarthy, Joe Torre, Whitey Herzog, Dusty Baker, Felipe Alou, Cito Gaston, Tony Russa.

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