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Originally Posted by Déjà Bru
Showalter now has four Manager of the Year Awards (with four different teams!). This ties him with Tony LaRussa and Bobby Cox for the most Manager of the Year Awards in history.
The award only goes back to 1983, though, so many fine bygone managers may have given these guys a run for their money.
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Interesting that they give awards to managers whose teams blow enormous leads. I would have thought the goal was rather different. It's Manager of the Year, not Manager of May.
Oh, and a notable difference is that Cox and LaRussa have won the Series, whereas Buck has a career postseason record of 10-16, losing 5 of 6 postseason series (and a WC game) and never even making it to the final round. Congratulations on consistently turning mediocrity into moderate success, I suppose.
tl;dr: Feh. Snitker was robbed.