All baseball managers have one thing in common and that is making bad decisions. During the course of a long baseball season that is what happens. Sometimes it is the result of thinking too far ahead or just the opposite. Often it can just be a long nightmare, such as Gene Mauch and the 1964 Phillies, which became the notable “Great Collapse” blowing a 6.5 game lead in the last two weeks of the season. Boston Red Sox fans saw a similar implosion in 1978.
Managers can have temperament interfere with decision-making, especially when a manager and a player have little or no rapport.