NL Manager of the Year nominees.

Illustrious Potentate said:
How is Thompson not a nominee?

Two on there were expected to be the two best teams in the NL, they were. The other blew a 10.5 game division lead.

Thompson took over a team headed nowhere fast and turned them around and broke an 11 year playoff drought
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The Mets might of blew a 10.5 game lead but they blew expectations out of the water
 
Sportsguy said:
The Mets might of blew a 10.5 game lead but they blew expectations out of the water
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Meh. When you’re spotted 10.5 games and you just need to win one game against the team chasing you to lock things up and you get swept, that’s all anyone is gonna remember
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
Meh. When you’re spotted 10.5 games and you just need to win one game against the team chasing you to lock things up and you get swept, that’s all anyone is gonna remember
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Well no offense but that’s easy for you to say being a Braves fan
 
Sportsguy said:
Well no offense but that’s easy for you to say being a Braves fan
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No it’s not. Should have never been that far back to begin with and the slow start likely cost us the top seed in the NL, and I don’t think Snit belongs on the list either
 
Showalter wins. Guess all you need for NL Manager of the Year is one of the highest payrolls, blow a 10.5 game lead in the division, and choke in the playoffs.
 
rsw626 said:
Showalter wins. Guess all you need for NL Manager of the Year is one of the highest payrolls, blow a 10.5 game lead in the division, and choke in the playoffs.
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voting is done before the playoffs
 
rsw626 said:
So blowing a 10.5 game lead with one of the highest payrolls in baseball then.
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they went 67-44 after having a 10.5 game lead. They played .603 ball. That's about a 98 win team over 162 games. The Braves went 77-34. The Braves basically played .693 ball. That's about a 112 win team over 162 games. If you go by halves, the Mets had a .624 W-L% in the 1st half and .623 in the 2nd. The Braves went from .596 in the 1st to .662 in the 2nd.

this wasn't a Mets collapse. this was the Braves playing stupidly good baseball.
 
navamind said:
they went 67-44 after having a 10.5 game lead. They played .603 ball. That's about a 98 win team over 162 games. The Braves went 77-34. The Braves basically played .693 ball. That's about a 112 win team over 162 games. If you go by halves, the Mets had a .624 W-L% in the 1st half and .623 in the 2nd. The Braves went from .596 in the 1st to .662 in the 2nd.

this wasn't a Mets collapse. this was the Braves playing stupidly good baseball.
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You can’t finish behind a team with a lower payroll and expect any kind of respect for any awards given to that team
 
navamind said:
they went 67-44 after having a 10.5 game lead. They played .603 ball. That's about a 98 win team over 162 games. The Braves went 77-34. The Braves basically played .693 ball. That's about a 112 win team over 162 games. If you go by halves, the Mets had a .624 W-L% in the 1st half and .623 in the 2nd. The Braves went from .596 in the 1st to .662 in the 2nd.

this wasn't a Mets collapse. this was the Braves playing stupidly good baseball.
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Point is, he had one of the highest payrolls and a stacked team. The Mets and the Dodgers did exactly what they were expected to do, neither he nor Roberts did anything extraordinary to deserve Manager of the Year.

As you said, the Braves played out of their skin late in the season. Of those three it should have been Snitker. But Thompson deserved it based on what happened with the Phillies after he took over.
 
rsw626 said:
Point is, he had one of the highest payrolls and a stacked team. The Mets and the Dodgers did exactly what they were expected to do, neither he nor Roberts did anything extraordinary to deserve Manager of the Year.

As you said, the Braves played out of their skin late in the season. Of those three it should have been Snitker. But Thompson deserved it based on what happened with the Phillies after he took over.
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fair enough, I'm just sick of hearing about it being a "collapse."

I think all 3 managers (Snitker/Showalter/Thomson) did a great job, I don't think there's a bad choice of the three. For the record I would have gone with Snitker just because of how stupidly good the Braves had to play to take the division back.

Roberts shouldn't have been a finalist. Dodgers had an amazing year, but they were coming off a 106 win season and it's not like the roster was radically different.
 
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