Guardians manager Stephen Vogt is 2-for-2.
Vogt was named American League Manager of the Year for the second consecutive year, as voted upon by the BBWAA, following a wild finish to the 2025 season in which the Guardians became the No. 1 story around baseball.
Vogt earned 17 of the 30 first-place votes. Toronto Blue Jays manager John Schneider finished in second place and received 10 first-place votes. Vogt also became the first manager to win the award in his first two seasons on the job, and the first to win it back-to-back since Kevin Cash in 2020-21.
After a 2024 in which almost everything went right, in 2025 Vogt oversaw what could easily be described as a tumultuous season.
As of July 8, the Guardians were eight games below .500 (40-48) and 15.5 games back of the Detroit Tigers in the AL Central.
Around the same time, the Guardians lost closer Emmanuel Clase and starting pitcher Luis Ortiz due to Major League Baseball’s gambling investigation, which has since led to charges filed against both pitchers by federal prosecutors.
Then came the trade deadline, in which Cleveland jettisoned veteran starting pitcher Shane Bieber and reliever Paul Sewald. It wasn’t the team veering into full sell mode, but it wasn’t a period of buying, either, and it included a near-trade of All-Star left fielder Steven Kwan.
The Guardians persevered through it all, rallying with an incredible September in which they won 20 of 27 games to pull off a historic comeback to punch their ticket to the postseason and repeat as division champs.
Cleveland won 88 games despite an offense that ranked last in the American League with 643 runs scored. Only the Colorado Rockies and Pittsburgh Pirates — two last-place teams that between them averaged 57 wins — scored fewer runs.
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