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How Diamondbacks' Kirk Gibson Won NL Manager Of The Year
In one of the less surprising announcements we'll likely see this awards season, Arizona Diamondbacks' manager Kirk Gibson won the National League Manager of the Year award, as handed out by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. This follows up on his victory in the same category of the...
Bud Black is the National League Manager of the Year
You know my favorite part about Bud Black earning the NL Manager of the Year Award? Is it sticks it to sdsuaztec4 in a weird way because of his endless "Fire Bud Black!" comments. I can just imagine him, sitting somewhere in a dusty library, trying to lawyer sh_t, checking his RSS reader and seeing...
Jim Tracy wins Manager of the Year Award; Given three year extension
Mirroring The Sporting News' awards earlier this month, Jim Tracy and Mike Scioscia have won the Manager of the Year awards for their respective leagues. In a suprising twist, Jim Tracy actually won in a landslide (the landslide part being the twist), by even a bigger margin than Zack Greinke won...
2009 SBNation Awards: Manager Of The Year
At the end of the regular season, all the SBN blogs cast their ballots for the same awards given out by the BBWAA. To make the vote comparable to the BBWAA vote, each site was given two votes, and NL blogs voted only for NL teams, AL blogs for AL teams. (And yes, I'm as puzzled as you will be to...
Jim Tracy named NL Manager of the Year, Scioscia in the AL
As announced by The Sporting News at midnight, Jim Tracy was selected as the Manager of the Year by a panel of 22 MLB managers. Tracy, who took the reins after Clint Hurdle's firing, led the club from an 18-28 start and went 74-42 to lead the club to their franchise best finish of 92-70, as well as...
SBN Awards: Manager of the Year Preface
This week's featured SBN Award is the Manager of the Year. Frankly I don't have a ton to say about it. Sure, we can theorize that Joe Maddon is a calming influence on his troops, however outside of lineup and bullpen usage we really don't know how much value he possesses. Ned Yost and Dave Sveum...
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