For a team that lost 111 games during the regular season, who would have thought that the offseason could be worse?

Well, the D-Backs today fired Wally Backman and replaced him with Bob Melvin, just four days after hiring Backman as manager. It turns out that Backman not only was arrested twice and is apparently in dire financial straits but was once a Met! You see, the D-Backs didn’t bother to do a background check before hiring him as manager. Oopsie! Turns out that they work on the honor system out in Phoenix.

Backman will forever be remembered (or forgotten) as the Baltimore Claws of baseball managers. Backman will never pilot Arizona during a regular-season game, but it turns out that he does not have the shortest career for a non-interim manager.

That honor belongs to Eddie Yost, who managed for one day, one stinking day!

On May 21, the Washington Senators stood dead last in the American League with a 14-26 record. With about a quarter of the season under their belts, the Senators were already 10 games behind the Orioles and White Sox (23-15). Given their slow start and the fact that they had lost 100 games in Mickey Vernon's first two years as manager just prior to the season, they decided to jettison Vernon in favor of Yost. Yost had played 14 seasons with the old Senators (1944-58) and had just retired after the 1962 season. It seemed a perfect fit.

On May 22, Washington lost 9-3 to the White Sox at home as Joe Horlen ran his record to 3-0. That day the Senators acquired Gil Hodges from the Mets in exchange for Jimmy Piersall. Hodges had never managed before, but he was given the reins to the club on the spot and Yost was out. Yep, they told "The Walking Man" to take a walk.

Yost never managed in the bigs again. And he is not the father of current Milwaukee manager Ned Yost, though it seems remarkable that they are not father and son.

Hodges ended up guiding the club to 105-loss season and even though he managed four more seasons in Washington, never finished higher than sixth (out of 10). He did have a bit of success upon returning to the Mets as manager a year before their "Amazin'" World Series victory.

There were a number of other interim managers who managed four days or fewer and here they are:

By the way, the all-time record for one-game managers is 23-12. So why do they get fired anyway?