In addition to our top six managers on the hot seat, here are five others who aren't exactly sitting pretty in their current roles.
Bud Black, Colorado Rockies
Hard to see any point in making an in-season change here, but Colorado has the worst record in the National League and has supplanted both Miami and Washington as the worst NL team dating back to the start of 2019. Getting the Rockies to the postseason in each of his first two years on the job earned Black a lot of brownie points. But this past half-decade has been brutal, as Colorado is annually hemorrhaging money for minimal wins.
Terry Francona, Cleveland Guardians
Hired by Cleveland in October 2012, Francona is the longest-tenured manager in the majors by a margin of more than two years. He has an overall winning percentage of .553 over the past 10-plus seasons, leading this franchise to the postseason six times. But if Cleveland can't win this year's pathetic AL Central, it's time to ask if the two-time World Series champion with Boston is actually the guy to bring Cleveland its first title since 1948. (There's basically zero chance the Guardians fire him in-season, but maybe they make an offseason change if they miss the playoffs.)
A.J. Hinch, Detroit Tigers
The Tigers took a chance on the former Houston Astros manager who was suspended for all of 2020 for not doing enough to prevent the infamous sign stealing scandal, hoping he could turn around a team that went 198-345 from 2017-20. And while the Tigers have gotten better, going from four seasons with a .365 winning percentage to three seasons with a .442 winning percentage isn't quite good enough to dispel any notions of a changing of the guard.
Dave Martinez, Washington Nationals
When you win a World Series as a manager, you typically get a several-year grace period. And when that manager subsequently has to sit back and watch the likes of Trea Turner, Max Scherzer, Juan Soto and others get traded away, it's hard to blame him for not winning another World Series. But as the Nationals stare down the barrel of their third consecutive season missing the playoffs by a margin of more than 20 games and their fourth straight last-place finish in the NL East, it might be time for a change.
Scott Servais, Seattle Mariners
When Seattle was the king of winning one-run and extra-inning games in 2021 and 2022, everyone loved Servais. And I do find it hard to imagine they would fire him one year after he led the Mariners to their first postseason in 21 years. But now that the M's are well below .500 in both the one-run and extra-inning departments with an offense that is drastically underachieving, that seat could be getting a wee bit warm.
