The Contemporary Baseball Era Committee for Managers/Executives/Umpires ballot for the Hall of Fame Class of 2024 was announced on Wednesday, and former Mets manager Davey Johnson is one of the candidates.
The ballot is made up of former managers, executives, and umpires whose primary contributions to the game came since 1980 were eligible for consideration. This year’s ballot included the aforementioned Davey Johnson as well as Cito Gaston, Jim Leyland, Ed Montague, Hank Peters, Lou Piniella, Joe West, and Bill White.
After a solid 13-year major league career, Davey became an MLB manager in short order as he became the Mets skipper for the beginning of the 1984 season. He did a marvelous job as he turned a 68-win 1983 Mets team into a winning ball club in his first season in Queens, which was just the beginning of his tremendous stint in Flushing. Under Davey’s tenure, the Mets would go to the playoffs twice in his seven years there and won the franchise’s second World Series trophy in 1986.
After his time in New York, Johnson would go on to manage four different ball clubs: the Cincinnati Reds, Baltimore Orioles, Los Angeles Dodgers, and finally the Washington Nationals. Davey finished his career with 1,372 wins, two Manager of the Year awards, one pennant, and one World Series title while only managing one season from start to finish, where his team finished under .500.
The Contemporary Era Committee will meet on Dec. 3 at baseball’s Winter Meetings in Nashville, Tennessee, and the vote will be announced live on MLB Network later that same day at 7:30 p.m. ET. In order to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, a recipient needs to achieve 75% of votes cast among the committee.
