[dsvitak]

I did a quick analysis of Buck Showalter, using baseball reference dot com.

Let me start by saying that I don't have a dog in this hunt. I neither like nor dislike the guy.

1551 wins, and by looking at his season by season stats, his wins vs. pythagorean (expected wins) is plus five, total, over 3000 games managed.

Not sure what his means. To me, he is a perfectly normal, nothing special manager.

Next is stealing. Only once in his career was he ever anywhere near league average in steal attempts, and that was the year he had Womack steal 72 bases. For his career, outside of that one season, his players attempt to steal second at about half the rate of the rest of the teams in the league.

Same with sacrifices...about 55% of league average for his career. Not sure what he is doing in the dugout..as it appears to me that he sits on his ass and lets the players do their thing, with little additional "strategy." Now...I'm not a big fan of either stealing second (unless your success rate is 80+%) or sacrificing, so this may be a positive.

His IBB rate is league average, for his career.

Edit to add...he has used about 14% fewer pinch hitters than the other teams in his leagues. Could be that he was mainly in AL, not sure how that stat is generated.

So..you have a low key manager that doesn't take chances. Is this what the Mets need?