Kirk Gibson of the Arizona Diamondbacks and Joe Maddon of the Tampa Bay Rays have been voted Managers of the Year.
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November 16, 2011
Kirk Gibson of the Arizona Diamondbacks and Joe Maddon of the Tampa Bay Rays have been voted Managers of the Year.
Gibson won by a wide margin in the National League and Maddon was a clear choice in the AL. The results were announced Wednesday by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
Gibson guided Arizona to a worst-to-first finish in his first full season as a big...
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November 17, 2011
Kirk Gibson gets credit for the Arizona Diamondbacks winning the NL West and he recently won NL manager of the year, but it seems like the real star of last season was hitting coach Don Baylor. The Diamondbacks were one of the top offenses in baseball and the emergence of Justin Upton is a direct result of him implementing the adjustments that he was asked to by Baylor throughout...
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November 16, 2011
PHOENIX When Kirk Gibson took the lineup card to the plate before a game in Detroit last summer, he told the opposing manager that he loved him.
Jim Leyland had that much of an impact on Gibson.
Today, Gibson joined mentors Leyland and Sparky Anderson and another manager he admires greatly, Tony La Russa, in select company when he was a landslide winner of the National League...
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November 16, 2011
Joe Maddon of the Tampa Bay Rays and Kirk Gibson of the Arizona Diamondbacks received their respective league's manager of the year award on Wednesday.
Maddon received the honor for the second time after his Rays overcame a nine-game deficit in September to surpass the Boston Red Sox and clinch the American League wild card.
Maddon received 26 of 28 first-place votes to outdistance...
Joe Maddon wants to stay with the team, a trio of Rays gets recognized in BBWAA awards voting, plus notes and quotes from Jeremy Helickson, James Shields, David Price and Andrew Friedman. All inside on this week's edition of Rays Roundup.
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November 17, 2011
Some interesting items to pass along from around the AL "Beast" ...
The Red Sox were gauging trade interest in some of their out-of-options pitchers at the GM Meetings this week, a source tells Alex Speier of WEEI.com. Franklin Morales, Andrew Miller, Felix Doubront, Michael Bowden and Scott Atchison are all out of options but aren't locks to make next year...
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November 17, 2011
You start thinking about the jobs Rays manager Joe Maddon could have. His name comes up all the time when there are managerial openings, like it did recently in hallowed baseball cities like St. Louis and Chicago.
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November 16, 2011
The Tampa Bay Rays' Joe Maddon and Kirk Gibson of the Arizona Diamondbacks were named the top managers in the American and National League on Wednesday.
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November 16, 2011
You start thinking about the jobs Rays manager Joe Maddon could have. His name comes up all the time when there are managerial openings, like it did recently in hallowed baseball cities like St. Louis and Chicago.
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November 16, 2011
ROGER MOONEY Joe Maddon received 26 of a possible 28 first place votes to easily outdistance the field for the 2011 AL Manager of the Year Award. Maddon, who also won manager of the year in 2008, is the seventh…
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November 16, 2011
Joe Maddon believed in his team, and the Rays responded to their boss, fighting all the way to the end of the season to claim the American League's Wild Card spot. For Maddon's work as Tampa Bay's skipper, the Baseball Writers' Association of America honored him Wednesday with the AL Manager of the Year Award.
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November 16, 2011
By BEN WALKER
AP Baseball Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- Kirk Gibson and Joe Maddon won Manager of the Year awards Wednesday -- one for overseeing a worst-to-first turnaround that lasted all season, the other after a frantic playoff push in the final month.
Gibson was a clear choice in the NL for guiding the Arizona Diamondbacks to the West title. A former MVP as a rough-and-tumble outfielder...
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November 16, 2011
D-backs manager Kirk Gibson was named the National League's Manager of the Year on Wednesday in a vote of the Baseball Writers' Association of America, with Brewers skipper Ron Roenicke placing second, ahead of former Cardinals manager Tony La Russa.
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