Welcome to Overmanaged!

The goal of Overmanaged! is to highlight and make fun of excessive (and sometimes) obsessive managerial moves in Major League Baseball. We find it interesting and amusing that, for example, Lloyd McLendon uses three pitchers to get through a single inning while clinging to a four-run lead. We love it when Larry Bowa pulls a double switch to get Doug Glanville into a game, only to pinch hit for him when the opposition predictably puts in a right-handed hitter.

Our goal is to provide you, the reader, (once we do have readers) with at least one example per day of overmanaging. Sometimes it's hard; sometimes the only game played on a Monday in April involves a Ken Macha and Terry Francona matchup. But we'll try, forever clutching our mantra: He who manages least may not manage the best, but he manages better than he who manages the most.

Note on the authors:

Chris is a White Sox fan. He suffered six long years of Jerry Manuel (1998-2003) after suffering two and half long years of Terry Bevington (mid-1995 to 1997), which included Bevington making a second trip to the mound while he had no reliever warming up.

Don Money is not the real Don Money. It is a pseudonym for a Phillies fan whose first trip to a ballgame garnered him a Don Money autographed bat. At the time, the four-year-old had no clue that it was astonishing that management actually gave Phillies' fans bats before the game's result was known. His distrust of Larry Bowa began on a hot summer day in 1979, when the Philly shortstop failed to show at a local Burger King for autographs. It is his hope that the previous sentence will become irrelevant very shortly.

Brad is a Mets fan. He'll edit this post and put in his own self description here.