Maddon named AL Manager of the Year

Rays manager Joe Maddon was selected by the BBWAA as the American League Manager of the Year. Maddon earned 26 out of 28 first place votes, 1 second place vote...and was left completely off of one ballot. Detroit's Jim Leyland and Texas' Ron Washington finished 2nd and 3rd in the voting, respectively. While what Leyland and Washington did was impressive, they didn't have a near $42 million payroll to have to work with.

This is the second time Maddon has won the award, the other time when he led the Rays from their worst-to-first run in 2008, when the team won the AL pennant. He is only the 7th manager in AL history to have won the award twice in his career.

The award was the second of the postseason for representatives of the Rays. Jeremy Hellickson was named the AL ROY on Monday. James Shields finished 3rd in the AL Cy Young voting, behind Justin Verlander and Jered Weaver.