![]() Lou Piniella won the 2008National League Manager of the Year Award, and won twice in theAmerican League. | |
Sport | Baseball |
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League | Major League Baseball |
Awarded for | Best manager ofAmerican League andNational League |
Country | United States, Canada |
Presented by | Baseball Writers' Association of America |
History | |
First award | 1983 |
Most recent |
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InMajor League Baseball, theManager of the Year Award is an honor given annually since 1983 to two outstandingmanagers, one each in theAmerican League (AL) and theNational League (NL). The winner is voted on by 30 members of theBaseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA). Each submits a vote for first, second, and third place among the managers of each league.[a] The manager with the highest score in each league wins the award.[1]
Several managers have won the award in a season in which they led their team to100 or more wins. They are:
In 1991,Bobby Cox became the first manager to win the award in both leagues, winning with theAtlanta Braves and having previously won with theToronto Blue Jays in 1985.[13] La Russa, Piniella, Showalter,Jim Leyland, Bob Melvin, Davey Johnson, andJoe Maddon have since won the award in both leagues.[2][6][14] Cox, La Russa, and Showalter have won the most awards, with four.[6][13] Baker, Leyland, Piniella, Maddon, Melvin,[15] and Terry Francona have won three times.[2][7][14] In 2005, Cox became the first manager to win the award in consecutive years.[13] Cash became the second manager in 2021, and first in the AL, to win the award in consecutive years.[16]Stephen Vogt of theCleveland Guardians andPat Murphy of theMilwaukee Brewers are the most recent winners; with Murphy's win, every MLB franchise has won the award at least once.
Because of the1994–95 Major League Baseball strike cut the season short and canceled the post-season, the BBWAA writers effectively created ade factomythical national championship (similar to college football) by naming managers of the unofficial league champions (lead the leagues in winning percentage) (Buck Showalter andFelipe Alou) as Managers of the Year.[17][18] TheChicago White Sox have seen five managers win the award, the most in the majors.
Only five managers have won the award while leading a team that finished outside the top two spots in its division.Buck Rodgers was the first, winning the award in 1987 with the third-place Expos.[19]Tony Peña and Showalter won the award with third-place teams in back-to-back years: Peña with the Royals in 2003, and Showalter with the Rangers in 2004.[20][21]Joe Girardi is the only manager to win the award with a fourth-place team (2006Florida Marlins);[22] he is also the only manager to win the award after fielding a team with a losing record.
† | Member of theNational Baseball Hall of Fame |
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^ | Indicates multiple award winners in the same year |
(#) | Number of wins by managers who have won the award multiple times |
Year | Each year links to that particular Major League Baseball season |
Bold | The manager's team won the World Series in the same season |
Manager | # of Awards | Years |
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Tony La Russa† | 4 | 1983 (AL), 1988 (AL), 1992 (AL), 2002 (NL) |
Bobby Cox† | 1985 (AL), 1991 (NL), 2004 (NL), 2005 (NL) | |
Buck Showalter | 1994 (AL), 2004 (AL), 2014 (AL), 2022 (NL) | |
Dusty Baker | 3 | 1993 (NL), 1997 (NL), 2000 (NL) |
Jim Leyland† | 1990 (NL), 1992 (NL), 2006 (AL) | |
Lou Piniella | 1995 (AL), 2001 (AL), 2008 (NL) | |
Joe Maddon | 2008 (AL), 2011 (AL), 2015 (NL) | |
Terry Francona | 2013 (AL), 2016 (AL), 2022 (AL) | |
Bob Melvin | 2007 (NL), 2012 (AL), 2018 (AL) | |
Sparky Anderson† | 2 | 1984 (AL), 1987 (AL) |
Joe Torre† | 1996 (AL), 1998 (AL) | |
Mike Scioscia | 2002 (AL), 2009 (AL) | |
Jack McKeon | 1999 (NL), 2003 (NL) | |
Tommy Lasorda† | 1983 (NL), 1988 (NL) | |
Davey Johnson | 1997 (AL), 2012 (NL) | |
Kevin Cash | 2020 (AL), 2021 (AL) |