Cooper for manager of the year
No manager has done a better job in the National League than Cecil Cooper....I don't have a Manager of the Year vote this season. I have an MVP and Rookie of the Year Award. (No person who votes for MVP can vote for the Cy Young in the same season, so I assigned our Houston MVP and Rookie of the Year ballots to Richard Justice and me. Brian McTaggart and Zachary Levine have the Cy Young award and manager of the year awards.)
But I hope you understand just how worthy of a candidate Cooper is for NL Manager of the Year.
In the NL East, he's done a more impressive job than any of those managers. In the NL West, I cannot find a guy who has done a better job. And in the NL Central, can anybody argue that Cooper has gotten more out of his team's talent than Ned Yost or Lou Piniella, considering he has lost his top RBI man since early August, his starting second baseman for over a third of the season and played without Ty Wigginton for almost a month?
4 months ago
clack
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What? I couldn't even stir any raging replies to this article?
I was amazed that Ortiz could claim that Cooper should be voted NL manager of the year. The only way I could contemplate that idea is if the Astros made a tremendous run and got into the playoffs. But Cooper made many, many managerial mistakes during the first half of the season, IMO. It made many of us wonder if he would last more than a year in the job. Now, I will admit that Cooper seems to have learned from some of his mistakes, and seems to have improved over the second half of the season. But I think that may only qualify him for keeping his job next year…..not manager of the year.
by clack on Sep 7, 2008 9:13 AM CDT 0 recs
It's easy
to say you’d vote for him when you don’t have a vote to waste on him. :)
Go 'Stros!
by Stros Bro on Sep 8, 2008 6:56 PM CDT 0 recs
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Chicago
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97 | 64 | .602 | 0 | Lost 4 |
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Milwaukee
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90 | 72 | .555 | 7.5 | Lost 1 |
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Houston
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86 | 75 | .534 | 11 | Won 1 |
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St. Louis
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86 | 76 | .530 | 11.5 | Won 6 |
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Cincinnati
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74 | 88 | .456 | 23.5 | Lost 5 |
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Pittsburgh
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67 | 95 | .413 | 30.5 | Won 1 |
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