John Schneider Named Finalist for Manager of the Year

[Leo Morgenstern]

The Baseball Writers Association of America announced the finalists for its big four end-of-season awards today: MVP, Cy Young, Rookie of the Year, and Manager of the Year. While no Blue Jays players will be taking home any of the BBWAA hardware, skipper John Schneider is in the running for the AL's highest managerial honour. 

His fellow finalists are Stephen Vogt of the Guardians and Dan Wilson of the Mariners.

As a reminder, the finalists for the BBWAA awards are not nominees. The winners are decided upon immediately following the regular season, and the three finalists in each category are simply the three highest vote-getters. 

The 2025 Managers of the Year will be announced on November 11 on MLB Network.

Featured image courtesy of John E. Sokolowski, Imagn Images.

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[Buster]

I guess.  He wasn't that good.  A reasonable case to be made that better managing would have resulted in a WS win.

He put a lot of players in positions to fail.

[ComeTogether]

JS got 2nd most votes

 

[Brownie19]

On 11/3/2025 at 9:22 PM, Buster said:

I guess.  He wasn't that good.  A reasonable case to be made that better managing would have resulted in a WS win.

He put a lot of players in positions to fail.

Nice troll effort.

[SeranthonySantander]

I don’t gaf who wins these awards 

[hanton]

The voters must read this site 

[SeranthonySantander]

10 minutes ago, hanton said:

The voters must read this site 

No manager who played Hoffman as the closer should have won MOY.  Playoff Hoffman is completely different but that's not what they were voting on.  Also, IKF.  

[hanton]

2 minutes ago, SeranthonySantander said:

No manager who played Hoffman as the closer should have won MOY.  Playoff Hoffman is completely different but that's not what they were voting on.  Also, IKF.  

bigger picture, 18th best bullpen by fWAR

10th in the 1st half

20th in the 2nd half

who should close?

[SeranthonySantander]

5 minutes ago, hanton said:

bigger picture, 18th best bullpen by fWAR

10th in the 1st half

20th in the 2nd half

who should close?

Dominguez should have been given a shot.  Or Varland.  Considering Hoffmans results he was very lucky to keep that job even without us having other good options.

[hanton]

3 minutes ago, SeranthonySantander said:

Dominguez should have been given a shot.  Or Varland.  Considering Hoffmans results he was very lucky to keep that job even without us having other good options.

sir has control issues - always has, varland and the home run ball.  I think JS did the best he could - I forget now did sir and varland pitch in game 7?

[SeranthonySantander]

Varland pretty sure had clean inning or 2 outs at least game 7, Ser no ER but shaky outing,  10th inning 

 

But yea Hoffman worked out in the playoffs for us.  So I guess John was right to stick with him.  
 

I still felt he should have lost his job to anyone we had willing to step up in the 9th though, or at least try it out a few games 

[Joltin Joe]

On 11/3/2025 at 10:10 PM, Leo Morgenstern said:

The Baseball Writers Association of America announced the finalists for its big four end-of-season awards today: MVP, Cy Young, Rookie of the Year, and Manager of the Year. While no Blue Jays players will be taking home any of the BBWAA hardware, skipper John Schneider is in the running for the AL's highest managerial honour. 

His fellow finalists are Stephen Vogt of the Guardians and Dan Wilson of the Mariners.

 

As a reminder, the finalists for the BBWAA awards are not nominees. The winners are decided upon immediately following the regular season, and the three finalists in each category are simply the three highest vote-getters. 

The 2025 Managers of the Year will be announced on November 11 on MLB Network.

Featured image courtesy of John E. Sokolowski, Imagn Images.

 

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Vogt will probably get it

[Brownie19]

10 hours ago, SeranthonySantander said:

No manager who played Hoffman as the closer should have won MOY.  Playoff Hoffman is completely different but that's not what they were voting on.  Also, IKF.  

Showing confidence in Hoffman may be one of the major reasons he performed well in the playoffs.  Confidence in one another (even during struggles) may also be why the team was so tight as a group, which certainly seemed to benefit them during the playoffs.

[SeranthonySantander]

1 hour ago, Brownie19 said:

Showing confidence in Hoffman may be one of the major reasons he performed well in the playoffs.  Confidence in one another (even during struggles) may also be why the team was so tight as a group, which certainly seemed to benefit them during the playoffs.

It is crazy that he was the only one who knew Hoffman could be good.  I was sure he was finished.

[Joltin Joe]

Making playoffs after Losing two pitchers to gambling allegations virtually sealed Vogt for manager of year.