How many Dominicans have won the Major League Manager of the Year award? The answer is only two.
How many Dominicans have been MLB managers? The answer is 7 and the last of them, Oliver Mármol, currently manages the St. Louis Cardinals.
Is Marble a candidate to receive the award for 2022? Of course, yes, although like every year he will have strong candidates. It must be taken into account that this award does not reward managers for going to the postseason, since it is considered that there is no merit in winning “with the most expensive or best talented team based on big money.”
That favored Tony Peña in 2003, in charge of the Kansas City Royals, when he won the manager of the year award. His record, inclusive, was shy, 83-79.
Peña was manager of Kansas City between 2002-2005, being recruited from the Houston Astros, a team for which he was coach. He was written off at the start of 2005 when he was 8-25. Before that, in 2004, Kansas lost 104 games.
After that, Tony assumed a position as coach of the Yankees, in different roles, and remained there until the departure of Joe Girardi in 2017. The cibaeño is far from baseball and is at his residence in Santiago attending to his company business water bottling company and a trio of farms that it has in the Montecristi area.
Felipe Alou was manager of the year in 1994. Montreal’s record at the time was 74-40, first place in the Eastern Division. The players’ strike came, MLB baseball stopped, there was no playoff, no world series. However, the awards of the year were awarded, and Felipe was chosen as manager.
He was given the distinction of leading the National League in the following year’s all-star game, held in Arlington, Texas. His opponent was Buck Showalter, of the Yankees, elected the best in the American League. The National won 3-2.
Felipe managed Montreal for 10 years and the Giants for 4, totaling 14 years. With Montreal he came in first 6 times, with the Giants he had 4 second places.
The other RD managers in the major league have been Luis Pujols (Detroit), Manny Acta (Cleveland and Washington), Luis Rojas (Mets) and Juan Samuel, Baltimore.
A little more: In 2002, the Detroit Tigers were managed by Phil Garner, who was in his third season. The team lost its first 6 games, Garner was suspended and Pujols, one of his coaches, was named interim. He was later confirmed in the job and Pujols called his friend Felipe Alou for help. In the end, the team had a lousy 55-100 season and Pujols didn’t return to the job. In 2003, Felipe would be appointed manager of the Giants and he would be there for 4 years. Eye: Felipe never had the opportunity to lead in the world series.
Juan Samuel was manager of Baltimore in 2010. His record was 17-34 and he was fired.
Of the 7 Dominican managers, Felipe, Tony, Luis Pujols and Juan Samuel have played in the major league. The others have done it in the minors.
COACHES: For the 2022 season, the most notable Dominican coaches, in main roles, are Tony Díaz in 1ra. point guard in Minnesota, Luis Rojas in the Yankees, Rodney Linares in Tampa and Carlos Febles in Boston (all third base coaches), Manny Acta in Seattle and Ramón Santiago in Detroit.
OF INTEREST: The Yankees dropped outfielder Estevan Florial, who was 0-for-11 in his performance the past few days. Also, the team signed veteran infielder Matt Carpenter, formerly of St. Louis. Carpenter, 36, was in free agency and can play first, third, DH and even the outfield. The Venezuelan Pablo Sandoval was discharged by the Acereros de Monclova of the Mexican league. Sandoval had a .240 average, 3 home runs, 18 RBIs in 28 games. Pitchers Miguel Sánchez, from Milwaukee and Junior Fernández, from San Luis, were lowered to the minors. The father of Arelis Reinoso, the mother of Al Horford, passed away. Her name is José Reynoso and naturally maternal grandfather of Al, whose Boston Celtics team heads to the final series. Ray Liotta, the actor who died here this Thursday, participated as a baseball player in the famous movie “Fields of Dream”, about pure baseball, starring Kevin Costner. Now there are many analyzes of why the low productivity of Vladimir Guerrero jr. When the boy starts hitting, then the complementary analyzes of what he did to get out of the losing streak, which has been going on for a month, will come. And that: I watch New York Yankees games every day, Aaron Hicks’ bat still doesn’t exist, and Anthony Rizzo has been an out for a month dressed as a ballplayer. But of those nobody abounds.