00:00You know, I want to give a ton of credit to the managers these days in Major League Baseball
00:05are not exactly what they used to be 20 some odd years ago, but there are some guys that
00:12are doing a fantastic job, and you mentioned it earlier.
00:16We said 14-game winning streak.
00:18Chad Tracy comes in, impossible spot.
00:21They fire everybody.
00:23He's 10-1 right now to win manager of the year.
00:26Kevin Cash again with Tampa is plus 250 to win manageria, and what they're doing with
00:33the White Sox, with Will Venable, well, most people, if they ran him over on the road, would
00:38know who he was, Craig, but I didn't see the White Sox being this good either.
00:44I mean, in the American League, is it his award at this point?
00:50Yeah, I mean, it usually goes to a team that is a big surprise, and if not, they just go
00:56to the old reliables.
00:57Like, in the NL, it would be Murphy.
00:59In the AL, it would be Cash.
01:01I don't think Venable's a lock at all.
01:03I think the White Sox would have to win probably, like, 85, 86 games to lock that in.
01:10Like, I don't think a 79-win White Sox team does it, and then I think it may end up
01:15going
01:15to Cash.
01:15So I still think that there's a way to go in that one, too.
01:20But, you know, to your point with the managers, it's so crazy, Joe.
01:24I was looking at this because somebody was arguing with me on social media, which they
01:27like to do about managers.
01:29Did you know that all of the managers in the National League, 2019, 20, 21, 22, and 23,
01:37are no longer with the current teams that they won manager of the year with?
01:41Not just managing, one manager of the year.
01:44So it just tells you, you're right, the landscape has completely changed.
01:49There's a few guys out there that you can count on maybe to win this award every year.
01:53You named them.
01:54Murphy in the NL, Cash in the AL.
01:57You know, Council's very highly paid.
01:59He was great with Milwaukee.
02:00You assume he's pretty good with the Cubs.
02:02Francona is a Hall of Fame manager, no matter which way you slice it.
02:05Dave Roberts.
02:06And then after that, to win this award, what you got to do is you have to have a win
02:11total
02:11on FanDuel of 60, and you win 80.
02:13And then you win the award.
02:15Other than that, it's going to be the guy who wins the division.
02:17And so I still think for me in the American League, it's going to end up being cash on
02:21Tampa Bay.
02:22That would be my guess, because the White Sox would have to win a ton.
02:25The NL, to me, I don't know why he's not getting talked about enough.
02:29I find it fascinating.
02:31Ali Marmol on the Cardinals, they had no expectations whatsoever.
02:35And he's not first or second or even third on the odds.
02:38What if the Cardinals were to sneak in and get that wild card in the postseason?
02:41That was an interesting name that I saw there.
02:45I agree.
02:46And listen, I'll say it.
02:48You know, I think Clayton McCullough in Miami has done it, and he's the second favorite choice.
02:53Mattingly, does it matter if you didn't start the year?
02:57Because Mattingly is the favorite right now to win the National League MVP, the National
03:03League, you know, manager of the year.
03:07Veteran team, they were going nowhere quickly.
03:11Mattingly comes in.
03:12Now, all of a sudden, Philadelphia with not only a good shot of overtaking Atlanta, but
03:17winning the National League East.
03:18But I think it's those two guys.
03:20The market thinks it's those two guys.
03:23Marmol, Murphy, yes.
03:26I think Walt Weiss, if he would have maintained what they were doing in April and May, would
03:32be there for Atlanta, but kind of hard to do it there.
03:35But Mattingly, that may be the first thing.
03:38I believe his son is the assistant GM.
03:41He is.
03:41I don't even know if people realize that, right, Greg?
03:44He is.
03:45Yeah, Preston Mattingly is.
03:46Yeah, I think, look, I mean, these odds haven't really adjusted.
03:50But for Clayton McCullough to win it, and I'm not trying to be funny here, I'm being real.
03:55The Marlins are going to have to win a game at some point here.
03:57They've lost seven games in a row.
03:59So for him to win it, they have to start winning some games.
04:02It may very well be the team that surprises to get into that third wildcard spot, Joe.
04:08If it's St.
04:09Louis, maybe it's Marmol.
04:10If it's the Marlins, maybe it is McCullough.
04:13If it is the Pirates, is Don Kelly potentially the guy?
04:17Don Kelly may be the manager of the year.
04:19I mean, I think that's very much in play, too.
04:21But the problem is that they're just so bored with giving the award to Pat Murphy, which really isn't right.
04:27When you think about it, isn't Pat Murphy the best manager in the NL?
04:29Probably, right?
04:31But, like, they're bored just giving him the award every year.
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