Former Cincinnati Reds manager Dusty Baker announced his retirement Tuesday afternoon at a press conference in Houston, Texas, where he spent the previous four years managing.Baker retired after the 2017 season, spending the 2018 and 2019 seasons away from the game before returning in 2020 to helm an Astros team fresh off the infamous sign-stealing scandal that helped them capture the 2017 World Series crown.Baker, who led the Astros to consecutive World Series appearances and the title last season, says while he's leaving field managing, he doesn't know what his next steps will be."I'm retiring from the field here in Houston," Baker said in a story on MLB.com. "I haven't made up my mind what I'm going to do or where I'm going to go. ... I still feel like I haven't done what I'm supposed to do in life. I feel the Lord has great things ahead for me."Baker retires with the seventh-most for a major league manager, having compiled 2,183 wins in 26 seasons and winning three pennants.For six of those 26 years, Baker called the Queen City home, being named manager of the Reds on October 13, 2007, becoming the first Black manager in franchise history in the process.Head to the video player above to watch 바카라게임's report from Baker's introductory press conference.Cincinnati had not logged a winning season in seven years at the time of Baker's hire, and it took a couple of years to get rolling: After winning 74 and 78 games in each of the first two years under Baker, the Reds won 91 games in 2010, the most since a 96-win season in 1999, en route to their first division title since 1995.The Reds again won 90+ games - 97, to be exact - in 2012 but fell to the eventual World Series champions (and Baker's former club) San Francisco Giants in five games in the NLDS.In 2013, Baker led the Reds to 90 wins, but in a stacked NL Central, it was good for third place and a Wild Card game loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates ended up being the last game Baker managed for the Redlegs. He was fired on October 4, replaced by Bryan Price.Baker finished his six year tenure as Reds manager with a 509-463 record, the third-most wins by a manager in franchise history and one of just nine Reds managers to finish his managerial tenure with a winning record.
Former Cincinnati Reds manager Dusty Baker announced his retirement Tuesday afternoon at a press conference in Houston, Texas, where he spent the previous four years managing.
Baker retired after the 2017 season, spending the 2018 and 2019 seasons away from the game before returning in 2020 to helm an Astros team fresh off the infamous sign-stealing scandal that helped them capture the 2017 World Series crown.
Baker, who led the Astros to consecutive World Series appearances and the title last season, says while he's leaving field managing, he doesn't know what his next steps will be.
"I'm retiring from the field here in Houston," Baker said. "I haven't made up my mind what I'm going to do or where I'm going to go. ... I still feel like I haven't done what I'm supposed to do in life. I feel the Lord has great things ahead for me."
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Baker retires with the seventh-most for a major league manager, having compiled 2,183 wins in 26 seasons and winning three pennants.
For six of those 26 years, Baker called the Queen City home, being named manager of the Reds on October 13, 2007, becoming the first Black manager in franchise history in the process.
Head to the video player above to watch 바카라게임's report from Baker's introductory press conference.
Cincinnati had not logged a winning season in seven years at the time of Baker's hire, and it took a couple of years to get rolling: After winning 74 and 78 games in each of the first two years under Baker, the Reds won 91 games in 2010, the most since a 96-win season in 1999, en route to their first division title since 1995.
The Reds again won 90+ games - 97, to be exact - in 2012 but fell to the eventual World Series champions (and Baker's former club) San Francisco Giants in five games in the NLDS.
In 2013, Baker led the Reds to 90 wins, but in a stacked NL Central, it was good for third place and a Wild Card game loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates ended up being the last game Baker managed for the Redlegs. He was fired on October 4, replaced by Bryan Price.
Baker finished his six year tenure as Reds manager with a 509-463 record, the third-most wins by a manager in franchise history and one of just nine Reds managers to finish his managerial tenure with a winning record.