List of San Francisco Giants managers

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The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team that plays in the National League Western Division. Since their inception as the New York Gothams in 1883, the Giants have employed 37 managers. [1] The duties of the team manager include team strategy and leadership on and off the field. [2] [3]

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The franchise's first manager was John Clapp, who managed the team for one year before being replaced in 1884 by Jim Price. [1] The New York Giants won two World Series championships during the 19th century, in 1888 and 1889, with Jim Mutrie as their manager both years. [a] [1] [4] [5] John McGraw became the Giants' manager during the 1902 season, beginning a streak of 54 consecutive years in which the Giants were managed by a Baseball Hall of Famer. McGraw managed for the better course of 30 years (he missed parts of the 1924, 1925, and 1927 seasons due to illness; Hughie Jennings took over for the former two while Rogers Hornsby served as player-manager for the latter), doing so until the middle of the 1932 season, the longest managerial tenure in Giants history. McGraw won 2,583 games as the Giants manager, the most in Giants history. While managing the Giants, the team won the National League championship 10 times—in 1904, 1905, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1917, 1921, 1922, 1923 and 1924. They played in the World Series nine times (no World Series was played in 1904) [6] and won three, in 1905, 1921 and 1922. [1] [7]

McGraw's successor was Hall of Famer Bill Terry, who managed the team from the middle of the 1932 season until 1941. He won 823 games as the Giants' manager, fourth-most in Giants history, and won three National League championships, in 1933, 1936 and 1937, winning the World Series in 1933. [8] Hall of Famers Mel Ott and Leo Durocher managed the team from 1942 through 1955. Durocher was the manager for the Giants' World Series championship in 1954. [9]

The Giants moved from New York to San Francisco in 1958, with Bill Rigney as their manager. [10] [11] They won their first National League championship in San Francisco under Alvin Dark in 1962 but lost the World Series that year. [12] In their first 28 years in San Francisco, they had 14 managers (including two terms by Rigney). [1] Since 1985, the Giants' managerial situation has been more stable. Roger Craig managed the team for more than seven seasons, from the middle of the 1985 season until 1992, including a National League championship in 1989. His successor, Dusty Baker, managed the team for ten years from 1993 through 2002, winning the National League championship in 2002. Baker has the third-highest win total of any Giants manager with 840. [1] Felipe Alou replaced Baker in 2003 and managed the team until 2006. Bruce Bochy managed the team from the 2007 season through 2019, winning World Series championships in 2010, 2012, and 2014, and has the second-most wins among all Giants managers. [1] [13]

Jim Mutrie has the highest winning percentage of any Giants manager, with .605. Heinie Smith has the lowest, with .156, although he managed just 32 games. The lowest winning percentage of any Giants manager who managed at least 100 games is .389, by Jim Davenport in 1985. [1]

Table key

#
A running total of the number of Giants managers. Any manager who has two or more separate terms is only counted once.
G
Number of regular season games managed; may not equal sum of wins and losses due to tie games
W
Number of regular season wins in games managed
L
Number of regular season losses in games managed
WPct
Winning percentage: number of wins divided by number of games managed
PA
Playoff appearances: number of years this manager has led the franchise to the playoffs
PW
Playoff wins: number of wins this manager has accrued in the playoffs
PL
Playoff losses: number of losses this manager has accrued in the playoffs
LC
League Championships: number of League Championships, or pennants, achieved by the manager
WS
World Series: number of World Series victories achieved by the manager
†
Elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame

Managers

# [b] ManagerSeasonsGWLWPctPAPWPLLCWSRef
1 John Clapp 1883 984650.479————— [14]
2 Jim Price 1884 1005642.571————— [15]
3 John Montgomery Ward † 1884 1468.429————— [16]
4 Jim Mutrie 1885–1891 905529345.605212722 [a] [4] [5] [17]
5 Pat Powers 1892 1537180.470————— [18]
— John Montgomery Ward † 1893–1894 275156108.591————— [16]
6 George Davis † 1895 331617.485————— [19]
7 Jack Doyle 1895 643231.508————— [20]
8 Harvey Watkins 1895 351817.514————— [21]
9 Arthur Irwin 1896 903653.404————— [22]
10 Bill Joyce 1896–1898 316179122.595————— [23]
11 Cap Anson † 1898 22913.409————— [24]
12 John B. Day 1899 662935.453————— [25]
13 Fred Hoey 1899 873155.360————— [26]
14 Buck Ewing † 1900 632141.339————— [27]
— George Davis † 1900–1901 29191122.427————— [19]
15 Horace Fogel 1902 441823.439————— [28]
16 Heinie Smith 1902 32527.156————— [29]
17 John McGraw † 1902–1932 4,4242,5831,790.59192628103 [7] [30] [31]
[32] [33] [34]
[35] [36] [37]
[38]
18 Hughie Jennings †(interim) 1924, 1925 765323.697————— [39]
19 Rogers Hornsby †(interim) 1927 332210.688————— [40]
20 Bill Terry † 1932–1941 1,496823661.55537931 [8] [41] [42]
[43]
21 Mel Ott † 1942–1948 1,004464530.467————— [44]
22 Leo Durocher † 1948–1955 1,163637523.54926421 [9] [45] [46]
23 Bill Rigney 1956–1960 674332342.493————— [47]
24 Tom Sheehan 1960 984650.479————— [48]
25 Alvin Dark 1961–1964 644366277.56913410 [12] [49]
26 Herman Franks 1965–1968 649367280.567————— [50]
27 Clyde King 1969–1970 20410995.534————— [51]
28 Charlie Fox 1970–1974 675348327.47811300 [52] [53]
29 Wes Westrum 1974–1975 247118129.516————— [54]
— Bill Rigney 1976 1627488.457————— [47]
30 Joe Altobelli 1977–1979 464225239.485————— [55]
31 Dave Bristol 1979–1980 1838598.464————— [56]
32 Frank Robinson † 1981–1984 541264277.488————— [57]
33 Danny Ozark 1984 562432.429————— [58]
34 Jim Davenport 1985 1445688.389————— [59]
35 Roger Craig 1985–1992 1,152586566.50927910 [60] [61] [62]
36 Dusty Baker [c] 1993–2002 1,556840715.5403111310 [63] [64] [65]
[66]
37 Felipe Alou 2003–2006 646342304.52911300 [67] [68]
38 Bruce Bochy 2007–2019 2,10610521054.5004361733 [13] [69]
39 Gabe Kapler 2020–2023 543295248.543123—— [70]
40 Kai Correa (interim) 2023 312.333000——
41 Bob Melvin 2024–present—————————

Statistics current through 2023 season.

Managers with multiple tenures

# [a] ManagerSeasonsGWLWPctPAPWPLLCWSRef
3 John Montgomery Ward † 1884, 1893–1894 291162116.583————— [16]
6 George Davis † 1895, 1900–1901 252107139.435————— [19]
21 Bill Rigney 1956–1960, 1976 836406430.486————— [47]

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