Manager of the Year Award on Baseball Almanac

Manager of the Year Award

The Manager of the Year Award is part of the This Year in Baseball Awards, established by Major League Baseball (MLB.com) in 2002 allowing "connected" fans to first select nominees for various awards then vote for those they selected in the categories.

In 2010 the Player of the Year Award remained the same, but the "group" of awards they belonged to changed from This Year in Baseball Awards to the GIBBY Awards (Greatness in Baseball Yearly Awards).

Those who were nominated and those who won the Manager of the Year are presented below in yearly sections. Bold names denote the winner and all nominees appear in descending order of total percentage of votes received.

"I think the biggest thing the players feel is that we feel like Buddy cares about us. When you have a manager that cares for you and know he has your back, it's easy to lay it out on the line for him. We respected him because of it. He wants us to do well, he roots for you. That makes it really easy for us as players to go out and play hard for the guy." - Todd Hundley on MLB.com (Corey Brock, 'Black edges Baker by one for top NL skipper', 11/17/2010, Source)

Manager of the Year Award Image of an Actual This Year in Baseball Award by MLB.com via "The Fans"
2003 Manager of the Year Award		% of Votes
Dusty Baker	Chicago	27.5%
Joe Torre	New York	18.7%
Jack McKeon	Florida	18.3%
Bobby Cox	Atlanta	8.0%
Felipe Alou	San Francisco	7.2%
Tony Pena	Chicago	6.9%
2004 Manager of the Year Award		% of Votes
Terry Francona	Boston	32.7%
Joe Torre	New York	15.6%
Bobby Cox	Atlanta	11.4%
Tony La Russa	St. Louis	9.2%
Phil Garner	Milwaukee	8.0%
2005 Manager of the Year Award		% of Votes
Ozzie Guillen	Chicago	22.5%
Joe Torre	New York	19.7%
Tony La Russa	St. Louis	14.3%
Bobby Cox	Atlanta	11.9%
Phil Garner	Houston	11.7%
2006 Manager of the Year Award		% of Votes
Jim Leyland	Detroit	19.9%
Willie Randolph	New York	17.9%
Joe Torre	New York	17.2%
Tony La Russa	St. Louis	16.5%
Ron Gardenhire	Minnesota	10.6%
Joe Girardi	Florida	8.8%
Grady Little	Los Angeles	4.0%
Jerry Narron	Cincinnati	2.1%
Ken Macha	Oakland	1.5%
Bruce Bochy	San Diego	1.4%
2007 Manager of the Year Award		% of Votes
Joe Torre	New York	25.0%
Terry Francona	Boston	24.3%
Clint Hurdle	Colorado	12.7%
Lou Piniella	Chicago	11.2%
Eric Wedge	Cleveland	6.7%
Ned Yost	Milwaukee	6.1%
Charlie Manuel	Philadelphia	5.6%
Bob Melvin	Arizona	4.3%
Mike Scioscia	Los Angeles	2.4%
Bud Black	San Diego	1.8%
2008 Manager of the Year Award		% of Votes
Charlie Manuel	Philadelphia	36.4%
Joe Maddon	Tampa Bay	20.5%
Terry Francona	Boston	13.9%
Joe Torre	New York	8.0%
Lou Piniella	Chicago	6.4%
Ron Gardenhire	Minnesota	4.3%
Ozzie Guillen	Chicago	3.5%
Fredi Gonzalez	Florida	2.7%
Mike Scioscia	Los Angeles	2.7%
Cecil Cooper	Houston	1.6%
2009 Manager of the Year Award		% of Votes
Jim Tracy	Colorado	18.3%
Charlie Manuel	Philadelphia	16.5%
Joe Girardi	New York	15.4%
Ron Gardenhire	Minnesota	12.9%
Joe Torre	Los Angeles	7.9%
Mike Scioscia	Los Angeles	6.9%
Terry Francona	Boston	6.7%
Tony La Russa	St. Louis	5.9%
Bobby Cox	Atlanta	4.8%
Ron Washington	Texas	4.7%
Manager of the Year Award GIBBY Award by MLB.com via "The Fans"
2010 Manager of the Year Award		% of Votes
Bruce Bochy	San Francisco	64.0%
Bud Black	San Diego	14.0%
Ron Washington	Texas	8.0%
Ron Gardenhire	Minnesota	7.0%
Bobby Cox	Atlanta	7.0%
2011 Manager of the Year Award		% of Votes
Kirk Gibson	Arizona	45.6%
Tony La Russa	St. Louis	17.5%
Joe Maddon	Tampa Bay	14.4%
Ron Roenicke	Milwaukee	10.6%
Jim Leyland	Detroit	4.3%
Ron Washington	Texas	3.0%
Joe Girardi	New York	2.4%
Charlie Manuel	Philadelphia	2.2%
2012 Manager of the Year Award		% of Votes
Buck Showalter	Baltimore	21.2%
Bob Melvin	Oakland	19.6%
Bruce Bochy	San Francisco	18.1%
Davey Johnson	Washington	15.3%
Dusty Baker	Cincinnati	6.6%
Joe Girardi	New York	6.0%
Mike Matheny	St. Louis	4.8%
Jim Leyland	Detroit	4.7%
Fredi Gonzalez	Atlanta	2.0%
Ron Washington	Texas	1.8%
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Manager of the Year Award

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The Manager of the Year is part of the GIBBY AWARDS / This Year in Baseball Awards set, created in 2002 by MLB.com. Click to see all the other variations.

In 2010 the award title didn't change, but they did choose to start also calling them GIBBY Awards, short for Greatness in Baseball Yearly.

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