NEW YORK -- There have been eight manager changes in baseball this offseason and almost all of them have the earmarks of analytics all over the hiring processes.

We've seen it coming -- the gradual emasculation of managers by the analytic-driven general managers -- and with almost all of the seven manager hirings so far, the one attribute that seems to be missing was credibility.

It's almost as if the GMs were saying: "Manager wanted. No major league experience needed."

Of the seven hired so far, only Walt Weiss with the Atlanta Braves, Skip Schumaker with the Texas Rangers and Derek Shelton with the Minnesota Twins have ever managed in the big leagues. And of those three only Schumaker, who was 2023 National League Manager of the Year with the Miami Marlins, managed with any degree of

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