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Byline: Barry Svrluga The Washington Nationals head to Houston for a series against the World Series champion Astros this week. The Astros the Nationals beat all those years ago to [...]

Five of the 12 managers in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball have M.L.B. experience. All of them played for the Mets. When Kodai Senga delivered a 99-mile-per-hour fastball to Luis Arraez [...]

Byline: Jesse Dougherty NEW YORK - When Dave Martinez was a child and his family left Manhattan, packing up their cramped apartment on the Upper East Side, placing the framed [...]

Manny Machado is a star on and off the field, and his unflinching presence, day in and day out, helped lead the Padres past the Dodgers and into the N.L.C.S. [...]

Byline: Jesse Dougherty Go back three years, bypass a few last-place finishes and the whole global pandemic, and there is Dave Martinez in the best month of his managerial career. [...]

A reporter went to upstate New York in 1985 to learn about the minor leagues. He found a young manager whose work habits would become a thing of legend. In [...]

Rob Thomson has quietly turned around the Phillies' season. If he can end the franchise's playoff drought, people might stop confusing him with other guys. PHILADELPHIA -- Rob Thomson has [...]

Byline: Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY LOS ANGELES - Come on, you didn't know the Baltimore Orioles would actually be the one of the best teams in baseball for the past [...]

Byline: Tim Benz Apr. 13The Pittsburgh Pirates' 2-1 loss to the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday marked the third home opener at PNC Park for manager Derek Shelton. But it was [...]

Byline: Justin Toscano, North Jersey Record | USA TODAY Network Now that the Mets have a new manager in Buck Showalter, we can focus on his top priorities as he [...]

From teammates, to manager and player, to division rivals, Tony La Russa and Dusty Baker's careers have consistently intersected for decades. They are facing off yet again. HOUSTON -- Fifty [...]

MILWAUKEE -- The last time the Milwaukee Brewers reached a World Series, Craig Counsell was 12. His father worked for the team, so Counsell would often tag along, including during [...]

A treasure trove of sortable statistics for managers gives fans the ability to track their team's tendencies on things like stolen bases, intentional walks, ejections and, yes, bunts. Baseball is [...]

Byline: Chelsea Janes Dusty Baker has been sitting in dugouts at Dodger Stadium off and on for 50 years. He came to the home dugout for eight years during his [...]

Byline: Jesse Doughtery PHILADELPHIA - By Wednesday morning, the second since Major League Baseball began to enforce its crackdown on the use of foreign substances by pitchers, part of the [...]

Byline: Jesse Dougherty NEW YORK - The ninth inning Sunday, when Brad Hand slipped for the second time in 24 hours, will linger from the Washington Nationals-New York Yankees series [...]

Byline: CATHAL KELLY, Staff Lead It's been a weird year. All the normal routines have been busted up. So in the spirit of trying new things, I decided to outsource [...]

Ng has twice been an assistant general manager, but after 30 years in the game she will be the first woman to lead a major league front office. Kim Ng [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin As the Boston Red Sox weighed whether to bring back Alex Cora as their manager these past few weeks, it was never the legalities of the move [...]

When Roberts was an information-hungry 26-year-old in the minor leagues, he soaked up valuable advice from a veteran third baseman named Jeff Manto that still serves him. When the Dodgers [...]

Even those who despise the Houston Astros for their cheating scandal have trouble disparaging Baker, who has earned unrivaled good will over five decades in the majors. Soon after the [...]

Even those who despise the Houston Astros for their cheating scandal have trouble disparaging Baker, who has earned unrivaled good will over five decades in the majors. Soon after the [...]

Byline: Thomas Boswell A year ago, I fired Dave Martinez. It wasn't my best decision. The next two nights, the Nationals lost two more brutal games to the New York [...]

When baseball fans see managers, it's usually when they remove a pitcher or get removed by an umpire. But some managerial antics in the dugout have been noteworthy over the [...]

Lead May 7, 2006: Imagine winning your 1,000th game as a baseball team's manager, and your record isn't even in the franchise's Top 3. Such was the case for Joe [...]

Now leading the Phillies, the former Yankees manager is trying not to dwell on how the Astros' sign-stealing may have affected the 2017 A.L.C.S. or his firing. CLEARWATER, Fla. -- [...]

Byline: Kevin Gorman Feb. 18-- Feb. 18--RADENTON, Fla. Derek Shelton understood the magnitude of the moment for his speech before the first full-squad workout of his first spring training as [...]

Byline: Barry Svrluga WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- The version of the Washington Nationals that gathers here is a known commodity, both now and in the future. Stephen Strasburg is [...]

Byline: Tim Benz Oct. 01-- Oct. 1--The word 'scapegoat' has been used quite a bit in the wake of Clint Hurdle's firing as Pirates manager. I felt like it was [...]

Byline: Jesse Dougherty ST. LOUIS - Try to track Chip Hale in the lead up to a game - from the coaches room to the clubhouse, to every nook of [...]

Byline: Tim Benz Aug. 21-- Aug. 21--It's time for this week's edition of 'U mad, bro?' Many of you certainly are. You are mad at Antonio Brown, Rod Woodson, Neal [...]

Byline: Jesse Dougherty It's about a 30-second walk from Dave Martinez's office to the news conference room at Nationals Park, from a place of quiet reflection to one where that [...]

Byline: Barry Svrluga The season is lost now, even before Memorial Day, and no veteran manager or fire-balling reliever is going to alter that sorry state. The Washington Nationals arrived [...]

Byline: Thomas Boswell Every day Dave Martinez meets the media before the Nationals game. He's always the same. He's in a genuinely good mood, like somebody invited him to a [...]

PHILADELPHIA -- In his 40 years in baseball, Don Mattingly has experienced it all, from the dizzying heights -- a Most Valuable Player Award at 24 -- to the lowest [...]

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. -- Wally Backman stopped midsentence to reach for another cigarette. ''Hey, it's only my third,'' he said with a sheepish grin, failing to mention he had started [...]

The red light in the ESPN booth was only seconds from flicking on, with millions of Sunday Night Baseball viewers waiting on the other side of the camera. Jessica Mendoza [...]

Byline: Jesse Dougherty WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Dave Martinez's spring training office is not cluttered, just busy enough to show he is important and pressed for time. Across from [...]

Byline: Jacob Bogage The rap on David Bell, the Cincinnati Reds' first-year manager, is that he's actually a pretty even-keeled guy. He grew up around the game, with his father [...]