Tony La Russa won 2728 games as a Manager and he only trails John McGraw who La Russa trails by 35 games and Connie Mack who is way ahead of everybody with 3,731 wins. La Russa has managed for the past 32 seasons in Major League Baseball as started with the Chicago White Sox in 1979 522 wins and then went directly to Oakland in '86 and won 798 games along with a World Series during the Bay area earthquake in '89 and then went directly to St. Louis in '96 where he won over half of his wins with 1408 and won both the 2006 and 2011 World Series. He is the winiest manager in Oakland A's history and the winiest manager of the St. Louis Cardinals which is one of the original baseball teams when Major League Baseball started with their regular schedule in 1901. He rep is a little bit better now than it was in Oakland in the late 80's and early 90's with those juiced up bash brothers i.e. Mark McGwire and José Canseco as that team a pain to listen to.
Even though he is 67 retirement age and did supposedly his best managing job getting Colby Rasmus out of town and bringing Edwin Jackson into town and bringing the Cardinals from like 10 and a half games out on August 25 and had played 130 games and in their last 32 games. They went 18 and 8 in September to erase a 8 and a half game deficit to the Atlanta Braves I believe that this maybe a sign that Albert Pujols is likely leaving because if La Russa had confidence that Pujols was staying he would probably be staying as well.
It would not surprise me if La Russa shows up somewhere and I do not know if right away but the only spring/summer he has had off in the past 32 years is the 1994 lost portion due to the labor issues and may not be able to just relax.
Tom Mehegan
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