The skipper finishes a narrow second to the New York Mets’ Buck Showalter in voting for the National League award, and maybe it was because he was expected to win.
Maybe Buck Showalter called it without even realizing it Tuesday afternoon.
The only area in which the Mets could be considered an underdog was their positioning when Showalter came in last winter to replace Luis Rojas, so from that standpoint the award makes perfect sense. The Mets were 24 games better than the year before and won 101 games, though the Atlanta Braves caught them in the final weekend and bumped them into the Wild Card Series, where they were knocked out by the Padres in three games.
Roberts won the Manager of the Year award after his first season as Dodgers manager , with a team that won one fewer game than the one managed by Don Mattingly the year before. Since then he has finished second, sixth, fourth, fifth – after the pandemic-shortened season in 2020 when the Dodgers won 43 of 60 games en route to a World Series title – and fifth again in 2021 before Tuesday’s second-place finish.
I get it. Each time a great regular season is followed by a playoff failure – and as we’ve said previously,– the noise from the fan base grows louder and more insistent.
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