Their styles can be wide-ranging, from charismatic to business-like to disciplinarian. But the MLB managers with the most wins in history are very much alike when it comes to the bottom line found each season in the standings.
The attention is often on a home run hitter or a flamethrowing pitcher, but when a baseball team has an outstanding manager, he’s often in the spotlight.
Many of the best managers in Major League Baseball outlast the players with decades-long tenures – racking up wins and championships along the way.
In the 2025 MLB season, Terry Francona is expected to become the 13th manager to reach 2,000 career wins. Each of those skippers has led a World Series champion – most of them, multiple times.
Following are the MLB managers (*-active, total through May 21, 2025) with the most wins all time. Note different sources employ different standards to measure managerial stints, with managers often accruing wins and losses while sitting out games for illness and other reasons.
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1. Connie Mack – 3,776 Wins
Teams: Pittsburgh Pirates (1894-96) and Philadelphia Athletics (1901-50)
If Mack’s win total drops your jaw, you’re not alone. It’s 892 more wins than Tony LaRussa’s No. 2 total and only tells half the incredible story with the longest-serving manager in major league history, who also has the all-time highs in games managed (7,879), losses (4,025) and ties (79).
Mack was dressed for success in a suit on the bench while leading the A’s to nine pennants and five World Series titles (No. 3 all time) across 50 seasons (yes, 50!). He retired at 87 – the oldest age for a manager.
2. Tony La Russa – 2,884 Wins
Teams: Chicago White Sox (1979-86 and 2021-22); Oakland Athletics (1986-95); and St. Louis Cardinals (1996-2011)
A law school graduate, La Russa managed with an intellectual style – often implementing innovative strategies to stay ahead of the competition (such as the development of the one-inning closer). He guided three World Series winners and three other teams to the Fall Classic.
3. John McGraw – 2,841 Wins
Teams: Baltimore Orioles NL (1899); Baltimore Orioles (1901-02); and New York Giants (1902-32)
Like Mack, the fiery McGraw worked his way into managing as a player-manager, which he was during the first of his three World Series-winning seasons in 1905. He was the first manager to reach 10 pennants (later matched by Casey Stengel).
4. Bobby Cox – 2,504 Wins
Teams: Atlanta Braves (1978-81 and 1990-2010) and Toronto Blue Jays (1982-85)
Not just one of the MLB managers with the most wins, Cox matched Joe McCarthy (see below) with a record six 100-win seasons. His Braves’ teams made a record 14 straight playoff appearances from 1991-2005 (the 1994 season was not concluded due to a player strike). The ’95 squad went on to capture the World Series.
5. Joe Torre – 2,326 Wins
Teams: New York Mets (1977-81); Atlanta Braves (1982-84); St. Louis Cardinals (1990-95); New York Yankees (1996-2007); and Los Angeles Dodgers (2008-10)
Torre never won a playoff game in his first 14 seasons as a manager, but his success took off with the Yankees: Each of his 12 teams reached the postseason, with six pennant and four World Series winners (the 1998 champs own the second-best record in a 162-game regular season). Torre’s 84 postseason wins mark the all-time high.
6. Bruce Bochy* – 2,196 Wins
Teams: San Diego Padres (1995-2006); San Francisco Giants (2007-19); and Texas Rangers (2023-Present)
Bochy has guided four World Series winners, and the last two (2014 Giants and 2023 Rangers, the latter won their first title) came out of the wild-card round. In 2014, he became the first manager to call on his son to pitch in a game (Brett, a Giants reliever at the time).
7. Sparky Anderson – 2,194 Wins
Teams: Cincinnati Reds (1970-78) and Detroit Tigers (1979-95)
Having guided the Big Red Machine to 1975 and ’76 World Series titles, Anderson did the same with the 1984 Tigers, becoming the first manager to win with both the AL and NL teams. That Tigers squad had the best 40-game start in MLB history (35-5).
8. Dusty Baker – 2,183 Wins
Teams: San Francisco Giants (1993-2002); Chicago Cubs (2003-06); Cincinnati Reds (2008-13); Washington Nationals (2016-17); and Houston Astros (2020-23)
Only Baker claims a division title and playoff appearance with five different organizations. His 2022 Astros won the World Series.
9. Bucky Harris – 2,159 Wins
Teams: Washington Senators (1924-28; 1935-42; 1950-54); Detroit Tigers (1929-33; 1955-56); Boston Red Sox (1934); Philadelphia Phillies (1943); and New York Yankees (1947-48)
At 27, Harris was baseball’s youngest World Series-winning manager with the Senators in 1924. There was a 23-year gap to his second title – with the 1947 Yankees.
10. Joe McCarthy – 2,127 Wins
Teams: Chicago Cubs (1926-30); New York Yankees (1931-46); and Boston Red Sox (1948-50)
Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio were among the baseball greats who played under McCarthy while he led the Yankees to seven World Series titles – a record later matched by Casey Stengel. His .615 winning percentage is the highest among managers with 1,000+ wins.
Yankees manager Joe McCarthy during the 1943 season. (AP Photo)11. Walter Alston – 2,040 Wins
Team: Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers (1954-76)
Alston signed 23 one-year contracts with the Dodgers while leading them to four World Series titles, including their only one while located in Brooklyn (1955).
12. Leo Durocher – 2,009 Wins
Teams: Brooklyn Dodgers (1939-46; 1948); New York Giants (1948-55); Chicago Cubs (1966-72); and Houston Astros (1972-73)
The colorful “Leo the Lip” won two World Series as both a player and a manager. He could have been Jackie Robinson’s first MLB manager in 1947, but was serving a year-long league suspension that season for “association with known gamblers.”
13. Terry Francona* – 1,975
Teams: Philadelphia Phillies (1997-2000); Boston Red Sox (2004-11); Cleveland Guardians (2013-23); Cincinnati Reds (2025-Present)
The Red Sox’s 86-year World Series title drought since 1918 ended with Francona in charge in 2004 (followed by another title in 2007). He also led Cleveland to the longest winning streak in AL history (22 games) during the 2017 season.
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