Arizona Diamondbacks Spring Training Questions, #4: Meet the Manager

To start with, here’s how the various team managers in history have done during their first 162 games in charge:

Buck Showalter (1998): 65-97

Bob Brenly (2001): 92-70

Bob Melvin (2005): 77-85

A.J. Hinch (2009-10): 72-90

Kirk Gibson (2010-11): 77-85

Chip Hale (2015): 79-83

That works out as an average record of 77 wins in their opening season (whether they started on Opening Day or not). But only once has a manager delivered a winning record right out of the gate: the winningest man in Diamondbacks history, and now the color commentator in the booth, Bob Brenly. If Torey Lovullo repeated that success - not least the little matter of the World Series win which capped it off - I think we’d be happy…