The most valuable player and Cy Young awards usually command the most attention among post-season awards, but this season has been a good year for outstanding managerial jobs, and an unusually high number of legitimately worthy candidates deserve serious consideration for the manager of the year awards.
The managers matter to me because I am a member of a five-man panel that selects …
Lew Wolff, the man who pays the Athletics’ salaries and other bills, rejects that knee-jerk assessment.
Derek Jeter popped up, too. Like Rose, he popped up for the reason he usually does. He climbed another step upward in his seemingly endless and extremely impressive journey toward establishing himself as one of the greatest and most honorable players ever. Warning: At this point I’m not exactly sure what I plan to say about Jeter, but I could wind up fawning over him, he’s been that good.
Jeter and Rose wind up in this column together because of recent speculation about Jeter’s chances of eclipsing Rose’s all-time hit record. When Jeter stroked his 200th hit of the season against Toronto Wednesday night, he had a career total of 3,288 hits. Rose finished his career with 4,256. There’s no sense speculating about those 968 hits because we don’t know how many years Jeter, 38, wants to play.
