Major League Baseball announced its manager of the year winners on Tuesday, rewarding a pair of managers whose teams made major improvements in 2015.
AL manager of the year: Jeff Banister
Jeff Banister is the third Rangers manager to win the award, the first since Buck Showalter in 2004. The other was Johnny Oates, who shared the award with Joe Torre in 1996.
The Rangers were 43-49 and nine games out of first place on July 20 but went 45-25 the rest of the season to edge the Astros out for the AL West title.