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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
My tiebreaker is that I already know that Buck is actually a good manager and Melvin is just a guy… Buck Showalter’s Orioles were supposed to finish third or fourth. Bob Melvin’s Athletics were supposed to finish third or fourth…
According to the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, Bob Melvin’s work was slightly more impressive; he is this year’s American League Manager of the Year. The voting was close, with Melvin taking 16 first-place votes, compared to 12 for Showalter…
if forced to choose, I choose Melvin because the A’s outscored their opponents by 99 runs during the season, the Orioles by only seven runs. Most years, Showalter would have been the obvious answer. But most years don’t see a team make up 14 games in the standings in three months.
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1. SoSHially Unacceptable Posted: November 13, 2012 at 07:18 PM (#4301892)Ballots by division:
AL West*: 6 Melvin, 1 Showalter
AL Central: 7 Melvin, 3 Showalter
AL East*: 3 Melvin, 8 Showalter
*Jack Curry voted for Seattle, who apparently didn't have enough eligible voters.
That said, I think he deserves the award for coining the phrase "weird wuss".
Then #### it, I'm not sad about this at all.
Exactly right.
The players seem to LOOOOOOOVE him, but it's hard to tell how much of that is just absolutely everything going right for four months.
I agree with both statements yet I can't help but feel that the vote came down to one win. If Baltimore was 94-68 and Oakland 93-69, the votes are probably reversed.
Who knows how responsible either guy was for their teams overperformance, but they both juggled their roster well and are tactically competent which is about all a fan can ask for from a manager.
Yeah, I wondered if that played a role in the vote. Do I vote for the easy-going manager of overachieving club A, or the skipper of overacheiving club b who has a tendency to come across as if he invented baseball?
As a fan of an O's division rival, I'm going to disagree there. He may have been a little less Buckish this year as his team was competitive and in the race all season, but there were plenty of times where he let the insufferable ####### out in the previous two. And I wouldn't be surprised if the media guys get little doses of it all season long.
It was an especially stark difference when you compared him to division rivals "MEMEME" Valentine, Blinky Mcprotrudingvein Girardi, Joe the Showman Madden, and whoever the Blue jays manager was.
Yet the writers who covered him more often were much more likely to vote for him.
That's a good point. It was just speculation. I have no idea how the writers feel about Buck. I know how I do, and I know that at least through the 2011 season, Showalter hadn't exactly entered his mellow phase.
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