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Originally Posted by dkgo
Manager of the Year is a completely meaningless award and I can't believe people are citing it as a credential. It's just "which team did the media underestimate the most pre-season." He had three seasons in a row under .480 (with two last place finishes) between two "manager of the year" awards. Did he just forget how to manage then? Was he outsmarting everyone by lowering expectations so much that he could then exceed them in order to get another award?
This is the guy who didn't want Joey Votto when he came up because he took too many walks.
But like I said managers impact almost nothing game to game unless they do something truly absurd like ask edwin encarnacion or adam dunn to sacrifice bunt in the bottom of the ninth.
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Here's what MLB.com had to say about this years' winners
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the two men prevailed on the might of what many would consider surprise finishes atop baseball’s Central divisions.
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https://www.mlb.com/news/2019-manager-of-the-year-award
No one ever cites anything the manager did directly.
That's because no one really knows what the managers did - or how what they did impacted the team.
Take the Yankees this year. Aaron Boone had as many first place votes as winner Rocco Baldelli. Why? Because "he held the team together thorough all the injuries" or whatever. As if Tauchman, Urshela et al playing like stars was somehow because of Boone.
Now, it may very well have been that the Yankees organization helped those guys out, but if anyone who voted for Boone, or any fan who has strong feelings that Boone should have won can name one thing he specifically did, I've never heard it