I actually have the NL Manager of the Year ballot this year, an award on which I think I’ve only voted once previously in my 15ish years in the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA), and certainly my least favorite one to vote on, because I don’t think there’s a good way to evaluate managers from the outside beyond the tactical stuff — and even that is difficult — while I also think that the impact of good managers is overstated. Heck, the Brewers lost one of the better managers in the game, and that just sank their season, didn’t it?
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