In his first season as manager of the Miami Marlins, Skip Schumaker narrowly missed out on the National League Manager of the Year award, while Brandon Hyde of the Baltimore Orioles easily won the American League Manager of the Year award on Tuesday.
Joining Jack McKeon (2003), Joe Girardi (2006), and Don Mattingly (2020) as the Marlins managers with the most awards from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, Schumaker is the fourth.
With 72 points, he prevailed in a closely contested NL vote, receiving eight votes each for first, second, and third. First place gets five points, second place gets three, and third place gets one.
While Skip Schumaker narrowly missed out on the National League Manager of the Year award in his first season as Miami Marlins manager, Brandon Hyde of the Baltimore Orioles easily won the American League Manager of the Year award on Tuesday.
After Don Mattingly (2020), Joe Girardi (2006), Jack McKeon (2003), and Schumaker, the Marlins manager is the fourth manager to receive this award from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.
With eight votes apiece for first, second, and third place, he secured 72 points in a crowded NL vote. One point is given for third place, three for second, and five for first.
The Orioles won the East Division with an American League-best 101-61 record and avoided being swept in 52 series during the regular season, making them the first team in club history and only the fourth in the MLB since 2000 to do so.
The Texas Rangers, the defending World Series champions, defeated Baltimore, one of the youngest teams in the majors, in a three-game ALDS sweep.
The Orioles won their 10th AL East championship, their first since 2014, and their first postseason trip since 2016 under Hyde, who finished second to Terry Francona of Cleveland in 2022.
With 27 votes in the lead and three in the second place, Hyde had 144 points, the most in the AL vote. The only manager with a name on every ballot was him.
Texas’s Bruce Bochy came in second with 61 points (three first-place votes), followed by Kevin Cash of Tampa Bay in third place with 52 points, Rocco Baldelli of Minnesota in fourth place with eight points, and Dusty Baker of Houston in fifth place with four.
Currently in his fifth season, Hyde joins Buck Showalter (2014), Davey Johnson (1997), and Frank Robinson (1989) as the Orioles managers with the most awards. Each league’s awards started in 1983.
