Every year when the finalists for the Baseball Writers Association of America Awards are announced there are a few surprises and omissions, I generally just let them pass. However, I happened to be working on this piece about Nationals manager Dave Martínez when the following was released from MLB:
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Um. Okay.
Look, I get that these votes are cast before the postseason begins, but even at the start of the postseason it was pretty clear that Martínez had pulled a rabbit out of his hat in Washington, D.