Mike Shildt of the St. Louis Cardinals was named National League Manager of the Year, marking just the second time in Manager of the Year voting that the winner did not receive the most first-place votes. The only other time was in the American League in 1995 when the Mariners’…
Rocco Baldelli of the Minnesota Twins was named American League Manager of the Year. This election marks the second time in the AL and the eighth time overall that the award went to someone who was in his first full season as a major league manager. The Rangers’ Jeff Banister…
Bob Melvin is the eighth manager to win the Manager of the Year award three or more times. He won in the AL with the Athletics in 2012 and in the NL with the Diamondbacks in 2007. Bobby Cox and Tony La Russa share the record with four victories apiece….
Brian Snitker was selected as National League Manager of the Year, marking the fourth time a Braves manager has been honored. Hall of Famer Bobby Cox won the award in 1991, 2004 and 2005 (and also in 1985 in the AL with the Blue Jays). Snitker is the seventh Manager…
Twins Manager Paul Molitor, who was elected to the Hall of Fame as a player in 2004, is the second Hall of Famer to be named Manager of the Year. The other was Frank Robinson, the AL Manager of the Year in 1989 for the Orioles. Robinson had been elected…
Torey Lovullo of the Arizona Diamondbacks won the National League Manager of the Year after his first year as a major league manager. This election marked the seventh time overall and the fourth year in a row that the award went to someone who was in his first full season…
Dave Roberts of the Los Angeles Dodgers became the sixth manager, and third in the last three years, to win the manager of the year award in his first full season as a manager. The Texas Rangers’ Jeff Banister won in the American League last year and the Washington Nationals’…
Cleveland Indians manager Terry Francona, who was previously honored in 2013, is the eighth multi-winner of the award in the AL. Tony La Russa and Buck Showalter were three-time winners. The other two-time winners were Sparky Anderson, Joe Torre, Lou Piniella, Mike Scioscia and Joe Maddon (La Russa, Piniella and…
This is the third Manager of the Year Award overall for Joe Maddon, who won in the American League with the Tampa Bay Rays in 2008 and 2011. He is the seventh manager to have the won the award in both leagues, joining Bobby Cox (1985 with the Toronto Blue…
This election marked the first time the American League award went to someone who was in his first full season as a manager and the fifth time overall. The other four first-year winners were in the National League: Hal Lanier with the Houston Astros in 1986, Dusty Baker with the…
