Rocco Baldelli Wins Manager of the Year

Good for Rocco! Maybe the Twins can use that as an additional selling point for free agents this offseason

A rookie manager who walked into a clubhouse that didn't know him, beset by injuries to players, a patch-work pitching staff yet 101 wins.

Yeah, he done good.

101 Thumbs Up

Way to go Rocco!

Good for Baldelli! Let's hope the season after is much different than the year after Molitor won his award.

Great News! Way to go Rocco!

Please row the boat to a WS championship next year. Sorry! Wrong team. Please navigate the ship to a WS victory in 2020.

eh, the team will probably regress to 97 wins, and make it out of the first round of the playoffs.

So much for sustainable success!

I won't argue with Rocco getting the nod but it's always a disappointment to see the managers of teams like the A's and Rays get so little love for what they've done while spending so little.

 

While ownership and the front office dictate spending and roster spaces respectively, the manager is the guy on the field who has to make it work and Cash and Melvin did a phenomenal job with not a lot of resources.

 

While it would have irritated the **** out of me to see Boone get the award, I would have tipped my cap to Cash or Melvin had they won.

It may have irritated me also had Boone won the award just because I absolutely hate the Yankees so much. But on the flip side, he did a magnificent job holding that team together with all those injuries all season, not to mention they didn't even make a big deadline splash like they usually do. Boone to me actually did a great job, whereas many of the Yankee managers of the past didn't impress me that much just because they had everything, but I really thought Boone did a great job holding that ship together with all those injuries all year.

Hate to throw water on this but ....

Ron Gardenhire MOY 2010

2011 63-99

Paul Molitor MOY 2017

2018 78-84 fired

Evidently Twins MOYs develop amnesia during the off season.

Congratulations on the award but I don't think Baldelli managed the Twins into 307 home runs. 

I think Rawlings in Costa Rica had more to do with it.

How on god's green earth did Francona make it on the ballot? I like Tito, but his season didn't exactly scream "Manager of the Year"

He's still learning and he is very smart and a likeable guy! No one wants to work for an @$$, I can attest to that. Congrats!

Congratulations to Rocco. Think how good he will be if he ever learns how to handle his bullpen. 

was kind of surprised Boone was runner up instead of Cash.

A (NY!) friend answered my expression of ambivalence, "He got to playoffs w/team not rated to contend. Nobody in April expected Twins to play that well all season."

The counter is that October is part of that season, and when we got to the Division series we saw that Baldelli and his on-field brain trust (as well as the FO) was outclassed. Maybe time and a better 2020 performance will soften my opinion...