Skipper Skip Schumaker of the Marlins wins the NL Manager of the Year Award for 2023.

This election marks the seventh time in the NL and ninth time overall that the award went to someone who was in his first full season as a major league manager. The other first-year NL winners were the Astros’ Hal Lanier (1986), the Giants’ Dusty Baker (1993), the Marlins’ Joe Girardi (2006), the Nationals’ Matt Williams (2014), the Dodgers’ Dave Roberts (2016) and the Diamondbacks’ Torey Lovullo (2017). There have been two first-year winners in the American League, the Rangers’ Jeff Banister (2015) and the Twins’ Rocco Baldelli (2019). 

Schumaker is the third Marlins manager honored, joining Jack McKeon (2003) and Don Mattingly (2020).

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It seems that making the playoffs with the Marlins is a ticket to the award. Only Jim Leyland was left off. Congratulations to Shumaker on the honor!

The article notes how often Craig Counsell came in second in recent years. There is an old British sitcom called Chef! In one episode, the chef goes to France for a cooking competition. At the end, they are announcing the award for individual dishes, and the chef keeps coming in second. He is a bit disappointed, but because all of his dishes were excellent, he wins the overall prize for the competition! That’s Counsell’s contract.