2009 SB Nation Awards: Managers of the Year

by Freneau on Nov 9, 2009 9:30 AM EST in Kansas City Royals News

Every season, the baseball team at SB Nation gets together and votes on the same name-brand season awards that the official baseball writers do. We follow the same format -- AL bloggers only vote for the AL Awards, two votes per city, etc. -- and the same points system. Like the BBWAA, votes are due before the postseason.

Today we announce the first set of awards, the AL and NL Managers of the Year. Results after the jump.

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

Congrats to Trey Hillman on a noble finish. I don't know who voted for him however. My own vote was as follows: Scioscia-Girardi-Wakamatsu.

And here's the National League:

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

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I don't trust any metric.....

That doesn’t rate Trey Hillman as the best manager.

Turning Kool-Aid to Jesus Juice since 2009.

by Discodave on Nov 9, 2009 10:59 AM EST reply actions 1 recs

I don't trust any metric...

-Trey Hillman

knock yourself out.

by theverbs on Nov 11, 2009 12:03 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs

Ok, you've got to find out who the hell voted for Trey.

I used to work with an old man that told me. Son, every workplace has a dumbass, if you don't have one where you work, then I'm afraid you're it.

by Warden11 on Nov 9, 2009 11:13 AM EST reply actions

yes we do

i’m on it

by Freneau on Nov 9, 2009 12:05 PM EST up reply actions

Here's Hillman's vote

http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2009/11/9/1122969/2009-sbn-al-manager-of-the-year

with explanation as well.

by ChristopherA on Nov 9, 2009 3:40 PM EST up reply actions

And a good explanation.

Hillman’s job was unquestionably harder than Girardi’s job, and they both managed to put their teams about where their talent would have you expect them. The Yankees were awesome on paper, and they were awesome during the season. The Royals were terrible on paper, and Hillman let that terrible show on the field.

Jeff’s vote makes a lot of sense.

I like using semi-colons; they make me feel smart.

by Llewdor on Nov 9, 2009 3:49 PM EST up reply actions

I dunno...

anyone who’d ever put Kyle Farnsworth in a close game (other than when he’s the last available bullpen arm in a very long tie game) is not doing his job well, no matter how hard that job can be said to be.

Chaim Mattis Keller New York City's # 1 Royals fan!

by cmkeller on Nov 9, 2009 3:54 PM EST up reply actions

To be fair, he isn't given the resources for success.

by xero3k on Nov 9, 2009 6:55 PM EST up reply actions

what?

it makes no sense at all. Hillman is a terrible manager, plain and simple. we might have been bad, but Hillman made it worse with his dumb decisions.

baseball rules.

by doublestix on Nov 11, 2009 6:36 PM EST up reply actions

I thought that Mariners fans were supposed to be smart

Ralph Wiggum would be a better GM than Dayton Moore

by BHWick on Nov 9, 2009 5:11 PM EST up reply actions

I think we miss the suck.

There’s something comforting about the expectation of gross incompetence.

I like using semi-colons; they make me feel smart.

by Llewdor on Nov 9, 2009 5:17 PM EST up reply actions

Smart enough to realise that voting for manager of the year is stupid

by Graham MacAree on Nov 9, 2009 6:01 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

so the official Royal spin would be

that bloggers think that Trey is equal to Gardenhire in managing abilities (the same number voted them #3)…..

"Things could always be worse." - Buddy Bell

by buddyball on Nov 9, 2009 3:28 PM EST reply actions

It was probably done as a joke

I’d bet it’s the same person who voted for the Pirates manager in the NL

Chaim Mattis Keller New York City's # 1 Royals fan!

by cmkeller on Nov 9, 2009 3:29 PM EST reply actions

Even if it wasn't (but I thought it was at first too)

That’s 1 person who thought he did a 3rd place job, and that puts him 10th out of 14 AL teams. Had the rankings done a full 1 to 14th place vote, rest assured Hillman would have been 12th or below. To be fair, Trey doesn’t have much talent to manage, but then again, he manages what he has very poorly. At times he almost maximizes the badness when it should be his job to minimize it.

by AxDxMx on Nov 9, 2009 4:12 PM EST up reply actions