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Here’s how hot each MLB manager’s seat will get in 2018

By Brad Weiss

ST. LOUIS, MO - JUNE 23: Manager Mike Matheny
ST. LOUIS, MO - JUNE 23: Manager Mike Matheny /
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TORONTO, ON – SEPTEMBER 21: Manager Ned Yost #3 of the Kansas City Royals looks on from the dugout during batting practice before the start of MLB game action against the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre on September 21, 2017 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images)
TORONTO, ON – SEPTEMBER 21: Manager Ned Yost #3 of the Kansas City Royals looks on from the dugout during batting practice before the start of MLB game action against the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre on September 21, 2017 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images) /

Ned Yost, Kansas City Royals

During the 2014 and 2015 seasons, the most dominant American League team in baseball was the Kansas City Royals. Let us allow that to sink in, as this team had been a perennial loser for nearly 30 years.

The man who turned this franchise around is Ned Yost, who is still the manager of the team heading into 2018. Yost and his Royals have struggled during the last two seasons, but he has enough equity that his seat is cold coming into the new season.

The team’s manager since he replaced Trey Hillman for the 2010 season, Yost has become the winningest manager in franchise history since. When he led the team to the playoffs back in 2014, it was their first time playing postseason baseball since 1985.

The 2018 Royals lost a true leader in Eric Hosmer, who went west to play with the San Diego Padres. They will have to rely on guys like Salvador Perez and Alex Gordon in 2018, though those two players are World Series champions.

Yost is signed through 2018, and this job is his to lose. The last two seasons have seen the team fail to win more than 81 games, so his seat could get warmer if the team finished towards the bottom of the AL Central this season.

Seat: Cold

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