page_title: List of Major League Baseball managers
section_title: Toronto Blue Jays
hierarchical_section_title: List of Major League Baseball managers / American League / Eastern Division / Toronto Blue Jays
caption_attribution_description: Rays at Orioles 6/30/17
context_page_description: Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball and is the organization that operates the National League and the American League. In 2000, the two leagues were officially disbanded as separate legal entities, and all of their rights and functions were consolidated in the commissioner's office. Since that time, Major League Baseball has operated as a single league. Major League Baseball constitutes one of the major professional sports leagues of the United States and Canada and is composed of 30 teams.
  Each team in the league has a manager, who is responsible for team strategy and leadership on and off the field. Assisted by various coaches, the manager sets the line-up and starting pitcher before each game and makes substitutions throughout the game. In early baseball history, it was not uncommon for players to fill multiple roles as player-managers; specifically, they managed the team while still being signed to play for the club. The last player-manager in Major League Baseball was Pete Rose, who began managing the Cincinnati Reds in 1984.
context_section_description: Since 2005, the Toronto Blue Jays are the only team in Major League Baseball based outside of the United States. Established in 1977, the Blue Jays' first manager was Roy Hartsfield, who held the position for two seasons. Toronto's most successful manager, Cito Gaston, leads the team in regular-season managerial wins (809) and losses (760), postseason appearances (34), and playoff wins (18) and losses (16). He is the only manager to win a championship with the Blue Jays; the team won consecutive championships in 1992 and 1993, becoming the only team to date based outside of the United States to win a World Series and, upon completing their 1993 victory, the first team to win a World Series on foreign soil. Bobby Cox, who managed the team from 1982 to 1985, is the only Blue Jays skipper to win the Manager of the Year Award, which he received in 1985. Charlie Montoyo was hired in 2018 as the club's 16th manager.
caption: Montoyo as a coach with the Rays
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