Kansas City Chapter of Baseball Bloggers Alliance Nominates Joe Maddon

In conjunction with the Baseball Bloggers Alliance Awards voting, the Kansas City Chapter of the BBA has nominated Joe Maddon for the Connie Mack Award as their American League Manager of the Year. He was a consensus choice after leading the young Tampa Bay Rays to the AL wild card, overcoming a nine game deficit in September.

Ron Washington, last year’s winner, was second in the KC BBA voting.  Jim Leyland finished third.

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Maddon was also named the AL Manager of the Year based on voting by the writers of the FanSided Network.

Michael Engel is the president of the KC Chapter of the BBA. You can stay current on all the Kings of Kauffman content and news by following us on Twitter, Facebook, or by way of our RSS feed.