Tonight, Buck Showalter was named National League Manager of the Year by the Baseball Writers of America. Showalter is the first Mets manager to ever win the award, though this is not his first time winning the award. Showalter has now won the award while managing four different franchises: the Yankees, the Rangers, the Orioles, and the Mets.
Showalter inherited a team that had not made the playoffs in five seasons and was in a division with the reigning World Series champion. Despite all of that, Showalter led the Mets to a 101 win season, only the fourth time in franchise history the team had triple-digit wins.