Craig Counsell, Aaron Boone, Alex Cora, Dave Roberts, Skip Schumacher, Mark Kotsay etc. If you played a long time and are smart you don't need experience to be a good major legue manager.
No doubt. AJ hates to lose and that's what this organization desperately needs. They're getting way to familiar with losing. He'll bring a mentality to the clubhouse they haven't had since he left. AJ was an extremely smart player and knows the game like the back of his hand so there are no worries about him there. He'll be a fantasitc manager.
Right or Kyle Teel. He only signed for $100k more than Gonzalez. They could've offered him $4.1M and they still would have been $300k under slot. It didn't make sense at the time and it looks much worse now.