Which MLB Manager is Kenough for the Silver Screen?

Barbie is officially the highest grossing film of this year, as brilliant reviews and childhood nostalgia have pushed the film’s revenue past $500 million in the U.S. alone, and over $1.18 billion worldwide. And speaking of blockbuster entertainment - we’re also past the halfway mark of the current Major League Baseball (MLB) regular season.

So what happens when these two worlds collide? Gambling.com decided to work on the ultimate crossover, by seeing what each Major League Baseball manager would look like as Ken - Barbie’s male counterpart from the film, and indeed many peoples’ childhoods. They used the aptly named AI image generation tool BaiRBIE, along with images of each manager, to create these masterpieces.

So now when you’re sitting down to watch your favorite baseball team, or heading back to the cinema to see Barbie for the fourth time, you won’t have to wonder what the boss of each MLB team would look like after a fashion doll inspired makeover.

Methodology

• Gambling.com worked out what each Major League Baseball manager would look like as Ken from the Barbie movie.
• After gathering manager photos from Baseball Reference - they put the images through the BaiRBIE application to get an image of each manager as a Ken.

All information was collected on 18th August 2023.