Dave Roberts Wins NL Manager Of The Year

Manager, Team	1st	2nd	3rd	Points
Dave Roberts, Dodgers	16	7	7	108
Joe Maddon, Cubs	8	8	6	70
Dusty Baker, Nationals	4	12	10	66
Terry Collins, Mets	2	3	5	24
Don Mattingly, Marlins			2	2

Dave Roberts, who led the Dodgers to the NL West title in his first year on the job, won NL Manager of the Year as voted upon by the Baseball Writers Association of America.

Roberts is the first Dodgers manager to win the award since Tommy Lasorda in 1988. Roberts, who played 10 years in the majors, including three with the Dodgers, replaced Don Mattingly, who left to manage the Marlins.

“I think the players saw the authenticity in me,” Roberts said during a conference call with reporters.  “You always want to remember what it’s like to be a player.”

A first-year manager has won a Manager of the Year award three years running; Matt Williams in 2014 with the Nationals and the Rangers’ Jeff Banister (2015) preceded Roberts.

Roberts got 16 first-place votes to outpoll the Cubs’ Joe Maddon and the Nationals’ Dusty Baker, who finished third.

HOW THEY VOTED
Name	Affiliation	1st	2nd	3rd
Ryan Fagan	Sporting News	Roberts	Maddon	Baker
JJ Cooper	Baseball America	Maddon	Baker	Roberts
Tom Verducci	SI.com	Roberts	Collins	Baker
Barry M. Bloom	MLB.com	Roberts	Maddon	Baker
Gordon Wittenmyer	Chicago Sun-Times	Roberts	Collins	Baker
Paul Sullivan	Chicago Tribune	Baker	Maddon	Roberts
Mark Schmetzer	Reds Report	Collins	Maddon	Roberts
Joe Kay	Associated Press	Maddon	Roberts	Baker
Tracy L Ringolsby	MLB.com	Collins	Baker	Roberts
Jonah Keri	CBS Sports	Roberts	Maddon	Baker
J.P. Hoornstra	Southern California News Group	Maddon	Roberts	Baker
Ryota Ichikawa	Jiji Press	Roberts	Maddon	Baker
Aurelio Moreno	El Sentinel Miami	Roberts	Baker	Maddon
Joe Frisaro	MLB.com	Baker	Roberts	Collins
Drew Olson	iHeart Media	Roberts	Baker	Maddon
Marly Rivera	ESPN.com	Roberts	Baker	Maddon
Ken Davidoff	New York Post	Roberts	Baker	Collins
David Lennon	New York Newsday	Baker	Roberts	Collins
Matt Breen	The Philadelphia Inquirer	Maddon	Roberts	Baker
Stephen Gross	The Morning Call	Roberts	Baker	Maddon
Ron Cook	Pittsburgh Post-Gazette	Maddon	Roberts	Collins
John Perrotto	USA Today	Roberts	Baker	Collins
Jay Paris	At Large	Roberts	Maddon	Baker
AJ Cassavell	MLB.com	Maddon	Roberts	Mattingly
Daniel Brown	San Jose Mercury News	Baker	Maddon	Roberts
Janie McCauley	Associated Press	Roberts	Baker	Maddon
Jesus Ortiz	St. Louis Post-Dispatch	Roberts	Baker	Mattingly
R.B. Fallstrom	Associated Press	Maddon	Collins	Roberts
William Lloyd Ladson	MLB.com	Maddon	Baker	Roberts
Mel Antonen	MASN	Roberts	Baker	Maddon