Terry Francona’s reward for bringing World Series baseball back to Cleveland was his second American League manager of the year award in four years. The 57-year-old manager guided the Cleveland Indians to a 94-win regular season, to an American League title and to the 10th inning of Game 7 of the World Series before the Indians fell to the Chicago Cubs.
In the American League, first-year Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts was named the league’s manager of the year. He is the first Dodgers manager to win since Tommy Lasorda in 1988.