Baker is like Francona and Charlie Manuel. Their strength lies in being able to communicate with their players not the X's and O's of the game. Hell Bobby Valentine is smarter than all three and is still a bad manager because he lacks that one talent.
On a scale of Francona to Valentine - where Francona has good "people skills" but low on baseball skills and Valentine has baseball smarts but is a social misfit - there is a huge middle ground - for both dimensions. Davey would be in the middle for both and he's a far better manager than either of Francona or Valentine.
