Kirk Gibson, who directed the Arizona Diamondbacks in a worst-to-first season as winners of the National League West title, was voted NL Manager of the Year in balloting by the BBWAA.
Gibson, 54, placed first on 28 ballots and second on the other four of the 32 ballots, submitted by two writers in each league city, to score 152 points, based on the 5-3-1 tabulation system. He was the only manager in either league this year to be named to every ballot.
Joe Maddon, who guided Tampa Bay from a nine-game deficit in the wild-card standings on Sept. 3 to the Rays’ third playoff appearance in four seasons, was named the American League Manager of the Year for the second time in his career.
Maddon, 57, was listed first on 26 of the 28 ballots, cast by two writers in each league city, and second on one to score 133 points, based on the 5-3-1 tabulation system. He also won the award in 2008.
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Posted: November 16, 2011 at 06:57 PM |
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1. TerpNats Posted: November 16, 2011 at 07:16 PM (#3994975)"I don't believe what I just read!!!!"
Agreed. Where's the fun in that?
If you can't find something to be upset about, you're not trying hard enough.
"A second place vote for Jose Valverde? He should have his ballot taken away! And his children. And possibly his wife. And... is that a... how does a guy on that salary get a car like that? Okay, take that away too, and give it to me. Actually, his wife seems sort of unpleasant. Let's let him keep that."
And how you grade defense.
On a 3-person ballot where you're judging something pretty subjective (managerial achievement), it doesn't surprise me that much.
It is possible I've missed a couple, but it looks like these are the only two.
Assuming it didn't have to be his team the year before, Joe Giradi did with the 2006 Marlins (one game worse than 2005 under McKeon). And he's probably the only MoY who led his team to a worse record than the year before and was subsequently fired before the next season began.
I think the AL MVP is the most difficult to predict in a long time.
Hardy-har-har. At least you could come up with a more plausible name.
Speaking of which, I met Howard Johnson last week when he stopped by the radio studio. Nice guy.
If he had, Francona would have been first.
no love for the manager not named maddon who took a team 10 1/2 back in august and got into the playoffs?
oh, and btw his team WON THE F-ING WORLD SERIES.
sheesh.
i know there's a lot of TLR hate here on btf, but hey he's retired you don't have to put up with him anymore. he did a helluva job this year.
oh, to heck with it. stupid awards.
see what I did there.....
yes, you got yourself into the BBWAA. congrats.
TLR struggled with a subpar performance from some pitchers he was depending on, endured a serious injury that took his best player -- the best player in the game -- out of commission for weeks, dealt with a problem player and his interfering entourage and the ensuing fallout, worked with his GM to turn that player into a corps of servicable relievers through trades, got his best guy back, flipped the switch and rode the rocket to the moon.
i can do what you did too ...
the DA makes a good point. if they could vote after the WS, i'm sure tony would have got a lot more consideration, but of course it makes a good deal of sense to vote before the WS, or the award would almost never go to someone who did a good job with subpar personnel.
Would Halladay over Kershaw tomorrow give us one of those fun old-fashioned 500 post threads of yore? How about anybody over Bautista?
I think Bautista should win.
I hope Bautista wins.
I'd be unhappy if he doesn't win.
But I'm not going to be outraged.
He was the easy choice for the first half of the season, but he "slumped" in the second half:
.257/.419/.477 and 12 home runs
At that point, some other candidates (Verlander, Ellsbury) started to really make a name for themselves.
Both of them make very good cases as MVP, and depending on how you rate pitching/position, it's not unthinkable for them to win.
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