[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by Assos

Battists, you can say that this guy was one of the greatest managers in history. But look at his final record and look at the teams he managed.

Gene Mauch Managerial Record | Baseball-Reference.com

I forgot Gene was the inaugural manager of the Montreal Expos. Imagine losing 110 games the first season, followed by six more years of sub .500 finishes before he was put out of his misery.

Gene was also the manager for this:

In late September 1964, his Phillies had a record of 90–60, a 6 1/2 game lead in the National League with 12 games left to play, and were starting a 7-game home stand. Mauch decided to start his two pitching aces, Jim Bunning and Chris Short, in 7 of the last 10 games, 4 of those starts on 2 days rest (all of which they lost). The Phillies faded, losing 10 games in a row before winning their last 2 games to finish tied for second place with the Cincinnati Reds, one game behind the St. Louis Cardinals in a collapse infamously known as the "Phold."

This:

In 1982, his Angels team won the American League's Western Division, and won the first two games, at home, in a best-of-5 ALCS against the Milwaukee Brewers. The Angels needed only one more victory to advance to their first World Series. Chances were great, since no team had ever lost the ALCS after winning the first two games. But Milwaukee came back to win all three remaining games (in Milwaukee) and the AL pennant. Some blamed Mauch, who chose to start Tommy John and Bruce Kison, winners of the first two games, in Games 4 and 5 on three days' rest each.

And this:

In 1986, the Angels again won the Western title, and led in the fifth game of the (by now best-of-7) ALCS against the Boston Red Sox, just one strike away from the Fall Classic, but Boston's Dave Henderson hit a home run off Angels reliever Donnie Moore to put the Red Sox ahead. The Angels tied the game in the bottom of the 9th, but the Red Sox went on to win the game in extra innings as well as the remaining two games in Boston to take the Series, and denied Mauch his last real chance to win a pennant and a World Series championship.

Yes, I can certainly see battists continuing in the tradition of Gene Mauch.