Tampa Bay Rays' Kevin Cash, Miami Marlins' Don Mattingly named AL, NL managers of the year
In a sweep for the state of Florida's two MLB teams, Kevin Cash of the Tampa Bay Rays and Don Mattingly of the Miami Marlins have been named AL and NL managers of the year.
Cash led the Rays to the American League's best regular-season record (40-20) and the franchise's second-ever World Series appearance. In the balloting by 30 members of the Baseball Writers Association of America, Cash received 22 first-place votes, compared to five for runner-up Rick Renteria -- who was fired at the end of the season by the Chicago White Sox.
Cash becomes the second Rays manager to receive the award after Joe Maddon won it in 2008 and 2011.
ROOKIES OF THE YEAR: AL: Kyle Lewis | NL: Devin Williams
Mattingly took a Marlins squad that lost 105 games in 2019 and turned it into a playoff participant following a second-place finish in the NL East -- in spite of a layoff of more than two weeks due to coronavirus outbreak.
Mattingly received 20 of the 30 first-place votes from NL writers to finish with 124 points and easily outdistance Jayce Tingler of the San Diego Padres (71 points, six first-place votes).
The 1985 AL MVP as a member of the New York Yankees, Mattingly becomes the fifth person in baseball history to win MVP and manager of the year awards -- joining Frank Robinson, Don Baylor, Joe Torre and Kirk Gibson.