John Schneider is not manager of the year

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It was tonight that we learned which managers would walk away with the Manager of the Year title in both leagues.

To no one’s surprise, Pat Murphy (Brewers) took the honor in the Nationals. It’s his second title in two seasons at the helm of the Wisconsin club.

Because the Brewers, against all odds, finished atop the MLB standings in 2025, it was only logical to see Murphy become only the second manager in history to win back-to-back Nationals titles. Bobby Cox is the other.

27 of the 30 first-place votes went to the man who took the Brewers to the playoffs in his first two seasons at the helm. That’s something Milwaukee has never seen before.

In the American, we were watching to see if John Schneider would be able to win the title. That said, he was always less likely to win than the Guardians’ Stephen Vogt.

And sure enough, the Cleveland manager won. Schneider finished second with 10 first-place votes out of 30.

Like Murphy, Vogt is in his second year with his current team… and even though he’s in a small market, this is his second consecutive Manager of the Year award.

But this is Vogt’s first two seasons as a manager in the majors. No one before him had managed such a feat: winning two titles in his first two years as a manager.

Vogt, who was still playing in 2022, managed to lead his team to a division title in 2025 even though the Tigers had a 15.5-game lead at one point during the season.

That’s no mean feat.

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