Marcus Kazmierczak

Baseball Managers by Position Played

Mike Matheny, a former catcher, was just named manager of the St. Louis Cardinals. This got me thinking, knowing that Bruce Bochy and Joe Girardi were both former catchers, what's the distribution of former positions of MLB managers.

It turns out catchers are by far the most popular former position for a manager, with ten of the twenty eight managers being former catchers. I was surprised there are only two pitchers.

Position	Count	%
C	10	35.7%
OF	6	21.4%
SS	4	14.3%
1B	3	10.7%
3B	2	7.1%
P	2	7.1%
2B	1	3.6%

Note: Positions based on play in Major or Minor league, several managers did not make it to the majors.
Current Managers in MLB as of Nov 17, 2011, 28, due to two empty positions at this time.
Data from Baseball Reference and Wikipedia