Which Current Baseball Managers Are Hall of Fame Worthy?
There are currently three managers leading their teams in the major leagues right now that when they retire should be easily elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, and another that has a great chance at being enshrined there. Bobby Cox of the Atlanta Braves, Joe Torre of the New York Yankees, and Tony LaRussa of the St. Louis Cardinals will be all but impossible to keep out of Cooperstown, with Lou Piniella of the Chicago Cubs a good candidate to end up there as well. After those four it is hard to predict who will put together a Hall of Fame career as a manager, but there are a couple of possibilities among active skippers. Cox is a no-brainer of a choice, as he sits fourth on the all-time managerial victories list with 2,240, behind only LaRussa, John McGraw, and Connie Mack, whose 3,731 triumphs on the bench is well out of reach for the rest of time, unless someone else buys a team and runs it for over fifty years. Cox has won fifteen division titles, five National League pennants, a
