Maddon, Gibson Voted Managers of the Year

Tampa Bay’s Joe Maddon and Arizona’s Kirk Gibson were named Managers of the Year Wednesday for their successful seasons in their respective leagues.
Maddon, Gibson Voted Managers of the Year
Joe Maddon led the Rays to a stunning postseason berth. (J. Meric/Getty Images)
Dave Martin
11/16/2011
Updated:
4/12/2012
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Joe Maddon

Tampa Bay’s Joe Maddon and Arizona’s Kirk Gibson were named Managers of the Year Wednesday for their successful seasons in their respective leagues.

For Maddon this was the second time in four seasons he’s won the award. He becomes the seventh multiple winner of the American League Award. The recently-retired Tony LaRussa, who’s also won it in the National League, is the only three-time winner of the award which wasn’t handed out until 1983.

The 57-year -old has been in charge of the once-laughable Rays for the last six seasons, taking them to the playoffs three times and winning the pennant in 2008. This season might have been his best work yet as Tampa Bay was eight-and-half games behind the Yankees in the Wild Card standings (and nine behind Boston) on August 30 before mounting a miraculous comeback and edging the slumping Sox for a postseason berth on the final day of the season.

For Gibson the honor comes after his first full season at the helm in Arizona following his hire in the middle of the 2010 campaign.

The former player, who’s still famous for his playoff heroics in Los Angeles and Detroit led the Diamondbacks to 94 wins in taking the National League West crown—a 29 game improvement from 2010.

Dave Martin is a New-York based writer as well as editor. He is the sports editor for the Epoch Times and is a consultant to private writers.
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