“This is a well-deserved honor,” Mets owner Steve Cohen said in a statement. Roberts also earned eight first-place votes but got only four second-place votes and five third-place votes for 57 points. Showalter received eight of the 30 first-place votes, 10 second-place votes and seven third-place votes for 77 points. I’m hoping, and rightfully so, that it’s something that everybody takes great pride in because it is a recognition of the organization as a whole.” Tuesday’s award makes Buck Showalter a four-time Manager of the Year winner. Now the challenge ahead of us is to do it again and to sustain some things that everybody allowed us to be a part of. “From ownership to the front office to all the people that go into it, and to the fans who supplied so much of the energy that our team fed off of this year. “The first feeling I have is what an organizational recognition it is,” Showalter said on a conference call Tuesday night. He joined Tony La Russa and Bobby Cox as the only managers to win the award four times, though Showalter is the only one to have won it with four different teams. It marked the fourth time and fourth team with which Showalter has won the award, with his previous three honors coming in the American League - the 1994 Yankees, 2004 Rangers and 2014 Orioles. Kate Upton pulls off ‘greatest surprise’ party for Justin Verlander’s birthdayįor the first time in franchise history, the Mets have a Manager of the Year.įor the manager himself, it’s nothing new.īuck Showalter was named the National League Manager of the Year on Tuesday, beating out the Dodgers’ Dave Roberts and the Braves’ Brian Snitker in a vote by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Mets DH option ‘ready to do my part’ after slimming down ‘Incredible vibe’: Steve Cohen has gut feeling about this Mets team The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.Why Steve Cohen’s day-to-day role with Mets is expanding for now This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor.
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And Dusty has that special gift of really making people invest in wanting to succeed, not just for themselves, but for him.įLORIDO: Not only that, but Bryant says Baker knows how to bring teams together.īRYANT: Whatever teams he manages - whether it was Washington or Chicago, Cincinnati - he's always made sure that the different players from different ethnicities brought in food to the clubhouse, really make it a family atmosphere. He always knows that they're the solution. He never believes that he is the solution. Bryant says that the key to Baker's success as a manager was his ability to keep his ego out of it.īRYANT: He never tried to be bigger than the players. HOWARD BRYANT: One of the amazing things about Dusty is he was a rookie in 1968, and he was in the dugout with - for a very brief time, there was Dusty Baker and Hank Aaron and Satchel Paige all in the same dugout with the Atlanta Braves in '68.įLORIDO: That's Howard Bryant, senior writer for ESPN and a friend of Baker's. His career started as a player with the 1968 Atlanta Braves and with some pretty cool company. He's 72 years old, has been a manager in the MLB since 1993 and has led five teams in the course of nearly 30 years. Thanks for all the support.īAKER: No, thanks to the players because I couldn't do without them, and. After the game, Baker was quick to acknowledge that baseball is a team sport.ĭUSTY BAKER: Thanks to everybody. Not just that, but he's the first African American manager to hit that 2,000 milestone. Much-anticipated place in Cooperstown is now solidified - 1 of 12 all time. UNIDENTIFIED ANNOUNCER: Dusty Baker, career win No. The hometown crowd was also celebrating a major milestone for the team's manager, Dusty Baker. But it wasn't just that victory that got Astros fans cheering.
Last night, the Houston Astros soundly beat the Seattle Mariners.
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