2009 SB Nation Baseball Awards: Manager Of The Year

by Eric Simon on Nov 9, 2009 2:00 PM EST

One of the nice things about having a whole network of baseball sites is that occasionally we get to pretend we're real writers and collaborate on projects with one another. Now that the baseball season is over, and before everyone's focus turns to the free agent and trade markets, we look to award the heroes of the this past year. And by "heroes" I mean "multi-millionaire baseball players". The BBWAA awards won't be announced until next week -- and at this point most of their opinions brush dangerously close to utter irrelevancy -- so SB Nation gets the jump on them by announcing the winners of our awards voting this week. As much as anything, it's an effort to see if our cadre of basement-dwellers can do a better job than the professionals at getting the awards correct.

Today we present the Manager of the Year voting, which is really just the manager of the team that most exceeded expectations. It's kind of a meaningless award but we include it to keep the awards analogous to those of the BBWAA.

National League SBN bloggers could only vote for the NL awards; American League bloggers were similarly restricted to voting for their own league's awards. Here are the results of the National League Manager of the Year voting. American League results can be found after the jump.

Rk	Manager	Team	1st	2nd	3rd	Pts
1	Jim Tracy	Colorado Rockies	24	1	2	125
2	Tony LaRussa	St. Louis Cardinals	3	7	10	46
3	Fredi Gonzalez	Florida Marlins	2	6	5	33
4	Joe Torre	Los Angeles Dodgers	-	9	2	29
5	Charlie Manuel	Philadelphia Phillies	-	3	5	14
6	Bruce Bochy	San Francisco Giants	1	1	1	9
7	Bobby Cox	Atlanta Braves	-	1	4	7
8	Bud Black	San Diego Padres	-	1	1	4
9	John Russell	Pittsburgh Pirates	-	1	-	3

American League voting results.

Rk	Manager	Team	1st	2nd	3rd	Pts
1	Mike Scioscia	Los Angeles Angels	9	8	3	72
2	Ron Gardenhire	Minnesota Twins	9	5	1	61
3	Don Wakamatsu	Seattle Mariners	6	3	8	47
4	Joe Girardi	New York Yankees	2	4	2	24
5	Ron Washington	Texas Rangers	1	4	4	21
6	Terry Francona	Boston Red Sox	1	1	3	11
7	Jim Leyland	Detroit Tigers	-	2	4	10
8	Joe Maddon	Tampa Bay Rays	-	1	1	4
9	Ozzie Guillen	Chicago White Sox	-	-	1	1
10	Trey Hillman	Kansas City Royals	-	-	1	1

Tweet Comment 24 comments | 0 recs |

Do you like this story?

Comments

What no votes for the Gangsta?

Not many managers have the balls to call in their backup catcher from the bullpen to pinch hit, and balls count for something right?

"All energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet

What a fool I was to defy him"

-HST

by Mark Himmelstein on Nov 9, 2009 2:03 PM EST reply actions

List of managers bookmarked when Gangsta come off the books!

by Michkin on Nov 9, 2009 2:12 PM EST reply actions

Eh...Anyone would do, really.

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Nov 9, 2009 4:40 PM EST up reply actions

A world where Joe Girardi gets first place votes for "manager of the year"

is not a world I want to live in

"[The Giants] beat us down. We were beat by a grown-man team, a team we want to be like one day. They came in here and took it to us. Out-manned us, out-gunned us. ... It wasn't even close." - Raheem Morris, 9/27/09

by cjmulrain on Nov 9, 2009 2:48 PM EST reply actions

You're right he should have gotten them all

It was genius not batting ARod 9th, or putting CC in the bullpen, or shooting mariano in the face.

by HotChipWillBreakYourLegs on Nov 9, 2009 4:22 PM EST up reply actions

the NL was a no brainer this year

although i think in reality as much of the rockies success was getting rid of Hurdle as it was getting Tracy. Girardi and Charlie make the list because their teams made the world series in spite of them. Neither one is exactly the brightest crayon in the toolshed. Also good for John Russell who gets votes for not jumping off of a bridge for having to manage the Pirates.

by KeithsMoustache on Nov 9, 2009 2:53 PM EST reply actions