Jim Leyland: Hall of Famer?
| Yes! |  43 (40.19%) |
| No! | 64 (59.81%) |
There's a Hall Watch question for you! The following is a list of other managers who have led teams from both leagues to the World Series: Sparky Anderson, Yogi Berra, Alvin Dark, Tony LaRussa, Joe McCarthy, and Dick Williams. Pretty impressive! Three are in the Hall of Fame (though Berra is there as a player moreso) and another almost certainly will be (LaRussa) eventually.
Sure, he's "just" 1164-1198 at this point ... the ironic thing is he's managed three division winners and never taken one to the Series, and the two teams he's taken to the Series have been Wild Card qualifiers ...
W L Pct Divsion Titles Pennants WS WinsI like Leyland quite a bit, but I don't know why we'd be having this conversation.
Jim Leyland 1164 1198 .493 3 2 1+
Dave Johnson 1148 888 .564 5 1 1
Because Jim Leyland has won division titles or pennants with Pittsburgh and Florida and with a hopeless, foundering Detroit franchise. Don't you think that is a quantifiably different achievement than Davey Johnson's with the Mets, Reds and Orioles? (Ignoring his Dodgers years).
Davey Johnson was the manager of the most consistently underachieving team of the 1980s (Mets) and arguably also of the 1990s (Orioles). That has to count for something.
As for the 1997 Marlin and 2006 Tiger success, Leyland does deserve some signficant credit, but personally I give much more of it to Dombrowski.