MLB Manager of the Year Award

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The grind of the baseball season had just hit Memorial Day and the Orioles were struggling. They had lost six straight in tough-luck fashion, including a three-game sweep in Toronto. The bats were struggling, pitchers were frustrated and Orioles...

Orioles fans need to wait until next week to find out if Buck Showalter has won the prestigious American League Manager of the Year Award. But the first step toward that is now out of the way. Showalter was announced Wednesday night as one of three...

For the first time, the Baseball Writers Association of America will televise the announcement of its four prominent awards for each league: MVP, Cy Young along with Manager and Rookie of the year. Yes, we’ve entered the 21st century. It’s...

It may be the season for ghosts, goblins and people dressed up like their favorite Orioles, but Buck and Angela Showalter came to the third-annual KidsPeace Trick-or-Trot 5K on Saturday dressed as themselves — Mr. and Mrs. Sporting News American...

It's one and done for Ozzie Guillen and the Miami Marlins. Nearly three weeks since ending a deeply disappointing season in last place, the Marlins announced Guillen's dismissal as manager in a 75-word statement issued Tuesday afternoon. That was...

Orioles manager Buck Showalter can add one more honor to his list of career accolades. The Sporting News named Showalter as the American League Manager of the Year today for taking the Orioles to their first playoff appearance since 1997. The Sporting...

In his brief comments to the media following the Orioles’ ALDS Game 5 loss to the Yankees in New York, club managing partner Peter Angelos opened the door to the idea of a contract extension for manager Buck Showalter. “If they're...

— Left-hander Joe Saunders was not the popular choice to get the Orioles' first postseason start in 15 years and to try and guide the club back to Baltimore for its first home playoff contest since Game 6 of the 1997 American League Championship...

[Down the stretch is a daily Orioles Insider blog that will set up the coming day for the O's and their American League competition as the push for the postseason continues.] About last night O's shut out for the first time in 49 games, lose to Jays...

OAKLAND — Neither the Orioles nor the Oakland A's — the two biggest surprises in baseball this September — have a roster conducive to landing postseason awards. Except, of course, American League Manager of the Year, with the two...

Former Cy Young Award winner John Smoltz, now a baseball analyst for TBS, had a chance to broadcast the Orioles-Yankees game Sunday. He spoke to me late last week about the Orioles and their surprising season. Here are some of his thoughts. On the team:...