Brandon Hyde of the Baltimore Orioles rightfully should have been the Manager of the Year in 2022. We was the runner up. However this year, the wrong was righted. Brandon Hyde is the 2023 Manager of the Year in MLB.
Anyone who follows the Orioles daily knows that this was warranted. The fact is that nobody’s more deserving. The preseason predictions were for this team to win 77 games. Instead they won 101 games (first time since 1980 they had won 100+), and won the American League East for the first time since 2014.
Orioles fans hope that this is the first of many such awards for Brandon Hyde. And mind you, there were other deserving candidates. Kevin Cash in Tampa and Bruce Bochy in Texas being two. But nobody had the expectations (or lack thereof) that Hyde did. Nobody else had the low payroll that Hyde and the Orioles did. And he did it in the best division in sports, the American League East.
Granted, this along with Gunnar Henderson’s Rookie of the Year and Silver Slugger Award only means that going into 2024 the stakes are higher. But these guys would have it no other way. It’s baseball; it’s the Orioles; it’s BALTIMORE.
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