Kevin Cash of the Tampa Bay Rays finished third on the 2018 AL Manager of the Year award ballot, and honestly it is pretty disappointing. The Rays front office asked Cash to do the unthinkable, lead a team stripped of its pieces through the gauntlet that was the American League.
After stumbling through a brutal April, as one would expect, they began selling again just as they had just a few months earlier. This time, trading Alex Colome and Denard Span away in May. Later in June, they would trade away Brad Miller as well, for eventual fan favorite Ji-Man Choi.