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Manager's experience, leadership more important than analytics savvy

Major League Baseball’s unemployment line of managers is impressive.

There’s John Farrell, who won the 2013 World Series with the Red Sox and most recently led them to back-to-back American League East division championships. There’s Dusty Baker, who won at least 95 games in each of his two seasons with the Nationals and received a pink slip for early postseason exits. And then there’s Joe Girardi, whose contract with the Yankees was not renewed earlier in the week after 10 successful seasons in New York and taking a young team within one game of a World Series this year.