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Cito Gaston is the only manager to win the World Series with the Blue Jays.

The Toronto Blue Jays is the only Canadian baseball franchise in Major League Baseball (MLB). In baseball, the head coach of a team is called the manager, or more formally, the field manager; there have been 12 different managers of the Blue Jays. The Blue Jays are members of both Major League Baseball's American League (AL) and of its East division. They are the only team outside of the United States to win the World Series,[1] and are currently the only Major League Baseball team outside the United States after the Montreal Expos moved to Washington, D.C. and became the Washington Nationals.[2]

Cito Gaston, the current manager of the Blue Jays, also managed team from 1989 to 1997. He was the fourth African-American manager in MLB history and the first to win a World Series.[3][4] He has the most games and wins of any Blue Jays manager with 1334 games and 690 wins.[5] He is followed by Bobby Cox in both categories with 648 games and 355 wins.[6] Cox won the AL Manager of the Year Award in 1985.[7] Mel Queen has the best winning percentage by winning 80 percent of his 5 games coached. Gaston is the only Blue Jays manager to win a World Series in 1992 and 1993. The Blue Jays have not gone to the playoffs since their last World Series win.[8]

Key

# Number of coaches[a]
GM Regular season games managed
W Regular season wins
L Regular season losses
W–L % Regular season win–loss percentage
PGM Playoff games managed
PW Playoff wins
PL Playoff losses
* Spent entire MLB managing career with the Blue Jays

Managers

Note: Statistics are correct as of July 27, 2008.

#[a] Name Term W L GM W–L % PGM[8] PW[8] PL[8] Awards Reference
1 Roy Hartsfield* 1977–1979 484 166 318 .343 — — — [9]
2 Bobby Mattick* 1980–1981 268 104 164 .388 — — — [10]
3 Bobby Cox 1982–1985 647 355 292 .549 7 3 4 1985 AL Manager of the Year[7] [6]
4 Jimy Williams 1986–1989 522 281 241 .538 — — — [11]
5 Cito Gaston* 1989–1991 417 235 182 .564 10 2 8 [5]
6 Gene Tenace[b] 1991 33 19 14 .576 — — — [12]
– Cito Gaston* 1992–1997 902 448 454 .497 24 16 8 2 World Series Championships (1992, 1993) [5]
7 Mel Queen* 1997 5 4 1 .800 — — — [13]
8 Tim Johnson* 1998 162 88 74 .543 — — — [14]
9 Jim Fregosi 1999–2000 324 167 157 .515 — — — [15]
10 Buck Martinez* 2001–2002 215 100 115 .465 — — — [16]
11 Carlos Tosca* 2002–2004 382 191 191 .500 — — — [17]
12 John Gibbons* 2004–2008 610 305 305 .500 — — — [18]
– Cito Gaston* 2008–present 31 19 12 .613 — — — [5]

Notes

  • a A running total of the number of managers of the Blue Jays. Thus any manager who has two separate terms as manager is only counted once.
  • b Gene Tenace coached until the end of the 1991 Toronto Blue Jays season; however, he did not coach in the playoffs, as he was only a interim manager for Cito Gaston.

References

General
  • "Toronto Blue Jays Managerial Register". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2008-07-07.
  • "Blue Jays All-time Coaches". MLB.com. Retrieved 2008-07-26.
Specific
  1. ^ "MLB World Series Winners". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2008-07-08.
  2. ^ "Teams". MLB.com. Retrieved 2008-07-08.
  3. ^ York, Marty (May 16, 1989-05-16). "Activist applauds Jay appointment". The Globe and Mail. p. A25. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ^ Leavy, Walter (1993). "Taking charge on the field". Ebony. 48 (7): 110. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  5. ^ a b c d "Cito Gaston Managerial Record". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2008-07-07.
  6. ^ a b "Bobby Cox". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2008-07-24.
  7. ^ a b "Manager of the Year Award Winners". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2008-07-25.
  8. ^ a b c d "Blue Jays Postseason Results". MLB.com. Retrieved 2008-07-20.
  9. ^ "Roy Hartsfield Managerial Record". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2008-07-07.
  10. ^ "Bobby Mattick Managerial Record". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2008-07-07.
  11. ^ "Red Sox replace Williams with Kerrigan". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2008-07-24.
  12. ^ "Gene Tenace Managerial Record". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2008-07-07.
  13. ^ "Mel Queen Managerial Record". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2008-07-07.
  14. ^ "Tim Johnson Managerial Record". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2008-07-07.
  15. ^ "Jim Fregosi Managerial Record". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2008-07-07.
  16. ^ "Buck Martinez Managerial Record". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2008-07-07.
  17. ^ "Carlos Tosca Managerial Record". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2008-07-07.
  18. ^ "John Gibbons Managerial Record". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2008-07-07.
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