25 Years of Yankee Managers

One thing that always cracked me up was when Yankee fans would brag about what a great owner George Steinbrenner was. Conveniently forgetting that his two dynasties occurred after he was suspended from baseball.

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In 1974, he was suspended for two years for making illegal contributions to Richard Nixon's 1972 campaign (One's a born liar, the other's convicted) With the Boss out of the picture, Gabe Paul rebuilt the team that won 3 straight American League Pennants, and 4 in six years.

Fast forward to 1990. The night they announced Steinbrenner was suspended for dealing with dirtbag gambler Howie Spira, Yankee Stadium exploded in celebration. At the time, the Bombers had baseball worst record. In the two years Steinbrenner was out, Gene Michael drafted the likes of Derek Jeter, and Andy Pettite and more importantly didn't trade away Mariano Rivera and Bernie Williams. That core won another 5 pennants and 4 World titles.

I appreciate Steinbrener was willing to spend big money. And yes his spending kept the team contending throughout the early 2000's. But there were a bunch of deals that went south as well.

Anyway, I'm not here to bash the Boss, but rather to point out that a team that once employed three managers in one season (1982-Bob Lemon, Gene Michael, Clyde King) have had three managers in the last 25 years.

From 1992 to 2017, Buck Showalter, Joe Torre and Joe Girardi have been the only three men to manage the New York Yankees. Making Yankee Manager one of the most stable jobs there is along with Pope, Supreme Court Justice and Pittsburgh Steelers head coach.


Here now is a list of all the NY Sports teams and the managers/coaches they've employed since 1992..



Mets
1992-93 Jeff Torborg
1993-1996 Dallas Green
1996-2002-Bobby Valentine
2003-2004 Art Howe
2005-2008 Willie Randolph
2008-2010-Jerry Manuel
2011-2017 Terry Collins
2017-? Mickey Calloway


Giants

1992-Ray Handley
1993-1995- Dan Reeves
1996-2003- Jim Fassel
2004-2015- Tom Coughlin
2016-? Ben McAdoo


Jets

1992-1993 Bruce Coslet
1994- Pete Carroll
1995-1996 Rich Kotite
1997-1999 Bill Parcells
2000-Bill Belichick*
2000-Al Groh
2001-2005 Herm Edwards
2006-2008- Eric Mangini
2009-2014 Rex Ryan
2015-? Todd Bowles

Knicks

1992-1995 Pat Riley
1995-1996-Don Nelson
1996-2001 Jeff Van Gundy
2001-2004-Don Cheney
2004- Lenny Wilkens
2005-Herb Williams
2005-2006 Larry Brown
2006-2008 Isiah Thomas
2008-2012- Mike Dantoni
2012-2014 Mike Woodson
2014-2016 Derek Fisher
2016-Kurt Rambis
2016-? Jeff Hornacek


Nets

1992-Bill Fitch
1992-1994-Chuck Daly
1994-1996-Butch Beard
1996-1999-John Calipari
1999-2000-Don Casey
2000-2004-Byron Scott
2004-2009-Lawrence Frank
2009-Tom Barrise
2009-2010-Kiki Vandeweighe
2010-2012-Avery Johnson
2012-2013-PJ Carlesemo
2013-2014-Jason Kidd
2014-2016-Lionel Hollins
2016-Tony Brown
2016-?-Kenny Atkinson


Rangers

1992-1993 Roger Neilson
1993-Ron Smith
1993-94 Mike Keenan
1995-1998-Colin Campbell
1998-2000 John Muckler
2000-2002-Ron Low
2002-2003 Bryan Trottier
2003-2004 Glen Sather
2005-2009-Tom Renney
2009-2013-John Tortarella
2013-?-Alain Vigneaualt

Islanders

1992-1994 Al Arbour
1995-Lorne Henning
1995-1997; 1998-99 Mike Milbury
1997-98 Rick Bowness
1999-Bill Stewart
1999-2001 Butch Goring
2001-2003 Peter Laviolette
2003-2006-Steve Stirling
2006-Brad Shaw
2006-2008 Ted Nolan
2008-2010-Scott Gordon
2010-2017-Jack Capuano
2017-? Doug Weight


Devils

1992-Herb Brooks
1993-1998-2009, 2010, 2011 Jacques Lemaire
1998-2000 Robbie Ftorek
2000-2002-2005 Larry Robinson
2002-Kevin Constantine
2002-2005-Pat Burns
2005-2007 Lou Lamoriello
2005-2007-Claude Julien
2007-2009 Brent Sutter
2010- John MacLean
2011-2014 Peter DeBoer
2015-? John Hynes


Some Notes

Bill Belichick was named head coach of the Jets in 1997 while the Jets and Patriots worked out compensation for Bill Parcells. He was more infamously coach in 2000 for a day before resigning as HC of NYJ.

The Devils had 12 different coaches, but made about 16 coaching changes. Larry Robinson and Jacques Lemaire made multiple trips behind the Devils bench.

Herb Williams had a couple of stints coaching the Knicks, and probably deserved a longer shot as coach.