At age 65, Ned Yost has decided to retire as a major-league manager. He will walk away from his Royals job at season's end.
Share to twitterOAKLAND, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 17: Manager Ned Yost #3 of the Kansas City Royals prior to the game against the Oakland Athletics at Ring Central Coliseum on September 17, 2019 in Oakland, California. At age 65, watching his Kansas City Royals reel off consecutive 100-loss seasons was great motivation for him to announce his retirement, which he did Monday – one day after his team took the triple-digit plunge again.
The former backup catcher took over the job in the second month of the 2010 campaign and will hang on until the end of this season, hoping to add to his win totals. KANSAS CITY, MO - SEPTEMBER 13: Kansas City Royals manager Ned Yost argues balls and strikes and gets ejected between innings during an MLB baseball game between the Houston Astros and Kansas City Royals on September 13, 2019 at Kauffman StadiumYost, who hit .212 for three clubs and later coached for Hall of Fame manager Bobby Cox in Atlanta, knows all about adversity. He’s worked as a pot-scrubber for Kentucky Fried Chicken and as a taxidermist in Jackson, Mississippi.
The 2014 club got so hot when it counted that it became the first team in baseball history to win eight consecutive postseason games, including a come-from-behind win in a wild wild-card game against the Oakland Athletics. But that was before Madison Bumgarner proved a one-man show for the San Francisco Giants, like the Royals a wild-card winner, in the World Series.
Yost’s 2015 Royals won even though they led in only 13 of the 53 innings in the World Series. No other team has ever led in so few innings yet still won.
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