The Baseball Writers Association of America announced the results of Manager of the Year balloting on Tuesday. White Sox skipper Will Venable won the American League honors, while Milwaukee’s Pat Murphy takes home the National League award for a third straight year.
Venable oversaw the league’s most dramatic turnaround in 2026. After going 60-102 in his first season at the helm, the ChiSox went 84-78 to make the playoffs for the first time since 2021. Chicago squandered their lead in the AL Central to Cleveland in September but secured the #6 seed in the American League.
Chicago succeeded behind one of the younger lineups in baseball. According to Baseball Reference, only three teams (Washington, St. Louis and Miami) had a younger average age among their hitters than the White Sox. They felt some of that youth with one of the higher strikeout rates in the league, but they were fifth in the majors in home runs and overall scoring.
While the Sox have a lot of young talent in the lineup, Venable and his staff had to work around an overall lack of pitching depth. That’s especially true in the rotation, where Sean Burke and Anthony Kay were their only sources of consistency down the stretch. The Sox leaned heavily on openers and multi-inning relievers to work around the lack of starting pitching; no team got fewer innings out of their “starters” than Chicago’s 674 2/3 frames.
Venable is the sixth manager in Sox history to win the award. Tony La Russa (1983), Jeff Torborg (1990), Gene Lamont (1993), Jerry Manuel (2000) and Ozzie Guillén (2005) previously won the award. It was a tightly-contested race, as he narrowly beat out Tampa Bay’s Kevin Cash by receiving 15 of 30 first-place votes. Cash placed first on 12 ballots, while Red Sox skipper Chad Tracy finished in third place with the remaining three first-place votes. Stephen Vogt, who won the award in each of the previous two years, finished in fourth place this season. Aaron Boone and Joe Espada were the others to receive at least one vote.
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