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William Nathaniel "Buck" Showalter III is an American former Major League Baseball manager. He has served as manager of the New York Yankees , Arizona Diamondbacks , Texas Rangers , and Baltimore Orioles . He also is a former professional Minor League Baseball player and television analyst for ESPN. A three-time American League Manager of the Year, Showalter has earned a reputation for building baseball teams into postseason contenders in short periods of time. He helped the Yankees rise from the bottom half of the AL East to first place before a players' strike prematurely ended the 1994 campaign. Under his watch, the Diamondbacks made their first-ever playoff appearance in only the second year of the team's existence. He left both franchises just prior to seasons when they won the World Series. During his first minor league season with the Fort Lauderdale Yankees he picked up the nickname "Buck" from manager Ed Napoleon, because of his tendency to sit around the clubhouse "buck n...

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