Connie Mack in 1916. Connie Mack is the all-time leader in career wins and losses by a manager.
This article contains a list of all Major League Baseballmanagers with at least 1,000 career regular season wins and a list of managers who have regular season win percentages of at least .540 in at least 450 games (slightly less than three full seasons).[1] Both lists are current through the games of July 5 of the 2024 Major League Baseball season.
Connie Mack is the all-time leader in wins (3,731) and losses (3,948). Bruce Bochy is the active wins leader (2,133) and is ninth in overall wins. Vic Harris, who was a manager in the segregated Negro leagues, has the highest percentage at 547–278 (.663). Dave Roberts is the active leader in winning percentage at 807–478 (.628), which is also the highest outside of the minority leagues.
Managers with 1,000 or more wins
Bruce Bochy is the active leader in manager wins, and is tied for ninth overall.
^Ties are very uncommon in modern baseball, and are not counted in official standings, but all statistics accumulated in the game are counted. In normal play, ties should not occur in baseball, as the rules state that extra innings are played until one of the two teams wins the game. In modern baseball, tied games can only occur if such a game is the last scheduled between the two teams that season and has no bearing on the postseason. In all other cases, the game is merely suspended and completed at the first opportunity. Tied games were more common in the early days of baseball before the introduction of floodlights in MLB ballparks when darkness would halt games on occasion. The few ties that still occur are usually caused by bad weather.
Win percentage
Managers included have managed at least 450 games – slightly less than three full seasons and a group including 298 managers – and regular season win percentages of at least .540.
Note that the total number of games listed for each manager in this table includes tie games though ties are not included in "decided game" statistics. The lowest winning percentage for a qualifying manager is Doc Prothro: .301 (138–320–2) in 460 games.
Vic Harris has the highest winning percentage of all time. Harris managed the Homestead Grays to seven Negro National League pennants and one Negro World Series title in eleven seasons as manager.Dave Roberts is the manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, winning the 2020 World Series. Roberts is the leader in winning percentage by an active manager.Known as "Marse Joe", Joe McCarthy guided the New York Yankees to eight pennants in 16 seasons. McCarthy is the all-time leader in winning percentage by a manager with more than 1,000 wins in Major League Baseball.
Two active managers have winning percentages above .540 but have not reached 450 managed games.
