Vote for the managers of the year
Awards continue Wednesday at 2 as the AL and NL Manager of the Year citations are announced. Full disclosure: I was one of the 28 voters for the AL award and the Baseball Writers Association of America has requested we not reveal our ballots until the winner is revealed (we voted for a top-three).
You can see a full discussion of the candidates for the AL award here. Pretty obvious the main candidates are Los Angeles' Mike Scioscia, Minnesota's Ron Gardenhire, New York's Joe Girardi, Texas' Ron Washington, Detroit's Jim Leyland (save for the last week!) and Seattle's Don Wakamatsu. It should be a very interesting vote.
In the NL race, Colorado's Jim Tracy appears to be a clear favorite. But there will certainly be sentiment for Tony La Russa, Bobby Cox, Joe Torre, Charlie Manuel and Fredi Gonzalez. If I were voting, I would tab Tracy-Cox-La Russa 1-2-3 (voting, remember, does not include the postseason).
Vote for your choices below.
---Mike Harrington
(www.twitter.com/bnharrington)
