{"id":8627,"date":"2010-10-14T12:02:11","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T19:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seamheads.com\/?p=8627"},"modified":"2010-10-14T12:02:11","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T19:02:11","slug":"ron-washington-bud-black-win-connie-mack-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/14\/ron-washington-bud-black-win-connie-mack-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Washington, Bud Black Win Connie Mack Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Baseball<\/a>Ron Washington of the Texas Rangers and Bud Black of the San Diego Padres were named winners of the Connie Mack Award by the Baseball Bloggers Alliance, noting them as the best managers in their respective leagues for 2010.<\/p>\n

Washington, who weathered a drug controversy in spring training, led Texas to their fifth divisional title since 1994 and their first since 1999. While the voting was based on his regular season accomplishments, Washington also guided his team to their first ever postseason series victory when they eliminated the Tampa Bay Rays in five games in the American League Divisional Series.<\/p>\n

Washington received ten first place votes in route to accumulating 74 total points. He edged out Minnesota Twins manager Ron Gardenhire, who received 67 points.<\/p>\n

In the National League, Black\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s guidance of a Padres team almost universally expected to finish last to first place most of the summer helped him edge Dusty Baker of the Cincinnati Reds by the slimmest of margins. The fact that the Padres fell just short of the playoffs while the Reds won the NL Central helped lead to the tight race. Black garnered nine first place selections and 53 total points to Baker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s seven first place nods and 51 total points.<\/p>\n

The complete voting results are as follows (first place votes in parenthesis):<\/p>\n

American League
\nRon Washington, Texas (10) 74
\nRon Gardenhire, Minnesota (7) 67
\nJoe Maddon, Tampa Bay (4) 35
\nTerry Francona, Boston (3) 20
\nCito Gaston, Toronto 9
\nBuck Showalter, Baltimore 9
\nJoe Girardi, New York 2<\/p>\n

National League
\nBud Black, San Diego (9) 53
\nDusty Baker, Cincinnati (7) 51
\nBobby Cox, Atlanta (2) 33
\nBruce Bochy, San Francisco (3) 29
\nCharlie Manuel, Philadelphia (1) 27
\nBrad Mills, Houston 3
\nMike Quade, Chicago 2<\/p>\n

The Baseball Bloggers Alliance was formed in the fall of 2009 to encourage cooperation and collaboration between baseball bloggers of all major league teams as well as those that follow baseball more generally. As of this writing, the organization consists of 224 blogs spanning all 30 major league squads as well as general baseball writing.<\/p>\n

The BBA is organized under a similar structure as the Baseball Writers of America, where blogs that follow the same team are combined into \u00e2\u20ac\u0153chapters\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and only two votes from the chapter on an award are counted. The blog chapters that are focused on general baseball were allowed two votes as well, which they could use both on the same league or split between the two leagues.<\/p>\n

Chapters generally followed one of two methods when casting their ballot. Either representatives of the chapter were given the ballots for voting or a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153group ballot\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was posted, accounting for both of their votes.<\/p>\n

Ballots are posted on the respective blogs and tabulated on a 5-3-1 point scale for first, second and third. In the interest of transparency, links are given below for the ballots. Chapter affiliation is in parenthesis. Those chapters that decided on the group method are noted with an asterisk.<\/p>\n

American League
\nCamden Crazies (Baltimore)*
\nBoston Red Thoughts (Boston)*
\nToeing The Rubber (Boston)*
\nThe Tribe Daily (Cleveland)*
\nMotor City Bengals (Detroit)
\nSwitch Hitting Pitchers (Detroit)
\nOne Royal Way (Kansas City)
\nSeth Speaks (Minnesota)
\nBronx Baseball Daily (New York)*
\nContract Year (Oakland)
\nJeff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mariners Fan Blog (Seattle)
\nRise of the Rays (Tampa Bay)
\nBaseball Is My Boyfriend (Texas)*
\nThe Blue Jay Hunter (Toronto)
\n500 Level Fan (Toronto)
\nAdvanced Fantasy Baseball (Fantasy)*
\nMisc. Baseball (History)*
\nVictoria Seals Baseball Blog (Other)*
\nBlogging From The Bleachers (General)*<\/p>\n

National League
\nProse and Ivy (Chicago)*
\nCincinnati Reds Blog (Cincinnati)
\nAstros County (Houston)
\nFeeling Dodger Blue (Los Angeles)
\nBernie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Crew (Milwaukee)*
\nBrewers Bar (Milwaukee)*
\nThe Eddie Kranepool Society (New York)*
\nDugger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Corner (Philadelphia)
\nWhere Have You Gone, Andy Van Slyke? (Pittsburgh)*
\ni70 Baseball (St. Louis)
\nThe Outfield Ivy (St. Louis)
\nFriar Forecast (San Diego)*
\nAdvanced Fantasy Baseball (Fantasy)*
\nMisc. Baseball (History)*
\nVictoria Seals Baseball Blog (Other)*
\nBlogging From The Bleachers (General)*
\nRon Kaplan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Baseball Bookshelf (Miscellaneous)*<\/p>\n

Prior Winners
\n2009: Mike Scioscia, Los Angeles of Anaheim; Jim Tracy, Colorado<\/p>\n

The official website of the BBA is located at www.baseballbloggersalliance.com<\/a>. The BBA can be found on Twitter by the handle @baseballblogs and by the hashmark #bbba. Members of the BBA may be heard at Blog Talk Radio every Tuesday night with their call-in show, BBA Baseball Talk, which may also be downloaded as a podcast from iTunes. For more information, contact Daniel Shoptaw at founder@baseballbloggersalliance.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ron Washington of the Texas Rangers and Bud Black of the San Diego Padres were named winners of the Connie Mack Award by the Baseball Bloggers Alliance, noting them as the best managers in their respective leagues for 2010. Washington, who weathered a drug controversy in spring training, led Texas to their fifth divisional title […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t