In its -year history, the Baltimore Orioles baseball franchise of Major League Baseball's American League has employed 42 managers. The duties of the team manager include team strategy and leadership on and off the field. Of those 42 managers, 12 have been "player-managers"; specifically, they managed the team while still being signed as a player. Since 1992, the team has played its home games at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
The Baltimore franchise began operations in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as the Brewers (not to be confused with the current National League team of the same name) in 1901. After one season in Wisconsin under manager and Hall of Famer Hugh Duffy, the franchise moved south to St. Louis, Missouri, adopting the St. Louis Browns name and hiring a new manager, Jimmy McAleer. The Browns remained in Missouri until the end of the 1953 season, when Major League Baseball's owners elected to move the franchise to Baltimore, Maryland, where they were renamed the Orioles, after Maryland's state bird.
Seven managers have taken the Orioles franchise to the post-season; Earl Weaver led the Orioles to a team-record six playoff appearances. Weaver, Hank Bauer, and Joe Altobelli are the only managers who have won a World Series championship with the club: Bauer in the 1966 World Series, over the Los Angeles Dodgers; Weaver in the 1970 World Series, over the Cincinnati Reds; and Altobelli in the 1983 World Series, over the Philadelphia Phillies. Weaver is the longest-tenured manager in franchise history, with 2,541 games of service in parts of 17 seasons (1968–1982, 1985–1986). The manager with the highest winning percentage in his career with the franchise is Luman Harris, owner of a .630 winning percentage during his 27 games managed in 1961; conversely, the worst winning percentage in franchise history is .222 by Oscar Melillo, who posted a 2–7 record during the 1938 season. Eight Orioles managers have been elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, including Frank Robinson, who was the first African-American manager in Major League Baseball; and Rogers Hornsby, who was a member of the cross-city rival Cardinals during the franchise's tenure in St. Louis.
Table key Linked to the corresponding Major League Baseball seasonWinning percentage: number of wins divided by number of games managedPlayoff appearances: number of years this manager has led the franchise to the post-seasonPlayoff wins: number of wins this manager has accrued in the post-seasonPlayoff losses: number of losses this manager has accrued in the post-seasonPennants: number of pennants (league championships) won by the managerWorld Series: number of World Series victories achieved by the managerElected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame (‡ denotes induction as manager)Number retired by the Baltimore Orioles franchise
Managers # Image Manager Years Wins Losses WPct PA PW PL Pen WS Ref 1 48 89 .350 2 – 551 632 .466 3 47 107 .305 4 – 57 134 .298 5 – 91 158 .365 6 2 6 .250 7 – 139 179 .437 8 – 158 196 .446 7 9 .438 9 – 172 180 .489 10 – 226 183 .553 22 29 .431 11 – 218 241 .475 12 – 220 239 .479 13 – 224 329 .405 14 2 6 .250 15 233 352 .398 16 21 56 .273 17 53 90 .371 18 2 7 .222 19 – 125 227 .355 20 – 432 410 .513 1 1 0 21 13 17 .433 22 59 95 .383 – 222 393 .361 22 29 .431 23 – 96 161 .374 24 54 100 .351 25 – 517 539 .490 26 17 10 .630 27 – 163 161 .503 28 – 407 318 .561 1 1 1 29 – 1354 919 .596 6 18 4 1 30 – 212 167 .559 1 1 1 31 1 0 1.000 – 126 141 .472 – 67 101 .399 32 – 230 285 .447 33 – 291 270 .519 34 71 73 .493 35 – 186 138 .574 2 0 0 36 – 157 167 .485 37 – 275 372 .425 38 – 129 140 .480 39 – 122 164 .427 40 – 187 283 .398 41 17 34 .333 42 – 669 684 .494 43 – 421 493 .461 44 – present Totals 43 Managers 124 Seasons 9,134 10,113 .475 16 56 46 7 3
Footnotes A running total of the number of Brewers'/Browns'/Orioles' managers. Thus, any manager who has two or more separate terms is only counted once.
References
External links Baltimore Orioles Official Website