MLB Manager of the Year Awards to be announced tonight

Awards season continues with the Manager of the Year winners set to be announced tonight on MLB Network at 6 pm CT / 7pm ET.

The American League finalists are Toronto Blue Jays manager John Schneider, Seattle Mariners skipper Dan Wilson, and Cleveland Guardians manager Stephen Vogt, who won the award last year.

John Schneider took the Blue Jays from last place in 2024 to Game 7 of the World Series this year, while Wilson's Mariners and Vogt's Guardians both won their respective divisions, with the Guardians mounting a historic comeback to overtake the Tigers on the final day of the regular season.

While Wilson and Vogt were great managers in 2025, John Schneider was even better.

Schneider took a 74-win team and brought them straight to the top of the American League, blowing away every expectation placed on the Blue Jays coming into 2025.

Managers of overachieving teams tend to do well in Manager of the Year voting, and when you consider the individual growth that Schneider himself has shown in this job, he's made an excellent case to become just the second Blue Jays manager in history to win this award and the first since Bobby Cox in 1985.

If Schneider doesn't win tonight there is something definitely wrong with the world.

Meanwhile, the National League contenders are the Milwaukee Brewers' Pat Murphy, Philadelphia Phillies' ( Corunna Ontario, native) Rob Thomson, and the Cincinnati Reds' Terry Francona.

The Brewers under Murphy had the best record in the majors at 97-65 (.599), while Thomson took the Phillies to the NLDS and Francona took the Reds to the playoffs in his first year at the helm.

While Phillies manager Rob Thomson had another stellar year, expectations were high in Philadelphia and the fizzled out fast in the postseason.

The reigning manager of the year Pat Murghy is a strong candidate to win the award again.