Imagine, Joe Maddon is the American League’s Manager of the Year, and Lou Piniella, the Tampa native who preceded Maddon as Rays’ manager, is the National League’s Manager of the Year after a very successful season with the Chicago Cubs.
How ironic – and how misleading. Joe Maddon could have managed the deep-pocketed Cubs into the World Series. Piniella could not – again — have done the same with the low-budget Rays.