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Davey Johnson, Mets' 1986 Title Manager and All-Star Second Baseman, Dies at 82

Tributes across baseball highlight a legacy of the 1986 Mets title, data-driven tactics, player development.

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FILE - New York Mets Manager Davey Johnson, center, holds baseball's World Series trophy on the podium after the Mets defeated the Boston Red Sox in Game 7, at Shea Stadium in New York, Oct. 27, 1986. Mets General Manager Frank Cashen, left, Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth, partially hidden, and Mets President Fred Wilpon, right, join the celebration in the locker room the clubhouse. (AP Photo/Ray Stubblebine, File)
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Overview

  • Longtime Mets PR executive Jay Horwitz said Johnson’s wife, Susan, informed him her husband died Friday after a long illness at a Sarasota, Florida hospital; no cause was disclosed.
  • Johnson remains the Mets’ winningest manager with 595 victories and led the 1986 club that won 108 games before capturing the World Series.
  • He compiled a 1,372–1,071 managerial record (.562) over 17 seasons, earning Manager of the Year honors with the Orioles in 1997 and the Nationals in 2012 and guiding four franchises to the postseason.
  • A four-time All-Star and three-time Gold Glove second baseman, he won World Series titles with the Orioles in 1966 and 1970, hit 43 homers for the Braves in 1973, and spent two seasons with Japan’s Yomiuri Giants.
  • Remembrances from former players and teams poured in, including messages from Darryl Strawberry and Jim Palmer and statements from the Mets and Orioles.