Don't just look at the results! It's not touching, right? Coach LAD Roberts Reasons for Zero Votes in Coach of the Year Award despite 2 consecutive World Series defeats

Nov 13, 2025

What's the big deal about winning with a lot of expensive players.

LA Dodgers manager Dave Roberts is currently the best major league (MLB) manager. This is because he has led the Dodgers for 10 years since 2016 and left the best performance. He has placed the Dodgers in the postseason for the 10th consecutive year, including No. 1 player in the district (National League West), and has won the World Series three times. In particular, he won the World Series championship last year and this year for two consecutive years.

However, Roberts has no connection with the 「Coach of the Year」 selected by the National Baseball Journalists Association (BBWAA). He has failed to win the title for nine consecutive years since he received the 'Coach of the Year' award in 2016, his first year as a Dodgers manager. Still, it used to be ranked at the top of the voting list.

However, this year, a very unusual result came out. Not a single person voted for Roberts.

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MLB.COM announced the winners of the Coach of the Year Award in the two major leagues selected by the BBWAA vote on the 12th (Korea time). In the National League (NL), Milwaukee Brewers coach Pat Murphy was honored with the award for the second consecutive year. Coach Murphy scored 141 points in total with 27 votes for first place and two votes for second place out of 30 valid votes. Cincinnati Reds manager Terry Francona (49 points) came in second.

In the American League (AL), Cleveland Guardians coach Stephen Boat was selected. He is also the winner of the award for the second consecutive year. Coach Boat scored 113 points in total, with 17 first-place votes, eight second-place votes, and four third-place votes out of 30 valid votes. He beat Toronto Blue Jays coach John Schneider (91 points) by a narrow margin.

However, one unusual thing was found in this vote. Roberts, who won his second consecutive World Series title, did not even get a single third-place vote, let alone the first place.

It seems like a very unusual situation, but there are good reasons to find out. In fact, the vote took place after the end of the regular league. Therefore, the postseason results were not reflected at all. In other words, there was no '2nd consecutive World Series premium'.

In the end, it means that the team management style and performance shown in the regular league have decided 'Coach of the Year'. From this point of view, it's no wonder Roberts didn't get the votes. It also makes sense that there have been two consecutive winners in both NL and AL.

First of all, it can be seen that BBWAA focuses on the journey and story of the entire season when voting 'Director of the Year'. Let's look at Pat Murphy for NL director first. First of all, Milwaukee, led by head coach Murphy, ranked first in MLB overall winning percentage with 97 wins and 65 losses in the regular season and 0.599 winning percentage. First, plus points.

In addition, I even filmed a touching unexpected drama. Milwaukee was classified as a `underdog' even before the opening of the season. He didn't even have confidence in winning the World Series, let alone winning the World Series. In fact, it was No. 2 in the NL Central until early July. However, since then, he has posted a strong 'second-half run' with a whopping 14 consecutive wins. The media's favorite 'Storytelling' was naturally equipped. While creating this atmosphere, votes cannot help but pour out to Murphy, who eventually took the league's highest winning rate.

MLB.COM is expected to have a difficult fight because it has lost key power in the offseason for the second consecutive year. However, thanks to Murphy's leadership, Milwaukee turned its outlook upside down. Coach Murphy showed a good example of a small but strong team by maximizing players' potential amid insufficient team budgets'I evaluated it. Murphy, who also has a touching story, has no choice but to receive votes for the director of the year.

The situation is similar on the AL side. Director Boat, who led the Cleveland Guardians, had a dramatic reversal drama this year. MLB.COM said, `Coach Boat overturned a whopping 15.5 games difference during the season, overtaking the Detroit Tigers to rank Cleveland as No. 1 in the AL Central Division.' `He made his debut as a rookie coach in 2024, and despite various controversies this year, he was applauded as the head coach who turned the tide in the end.'

In the end, looking at the results of the awards of these two directors and their explanations, we can find out the model of the BBWAA's 'Director of the Year Award'. No matter how good they perform, they do not give votes to coaches who collect large FA while spending astronomical money and win the championship on that power.

Instead, it can be seen that he highly appreciates the players as a true director who created a touching reversal drama in the process, leading the players with an indomitable will not give up even in poor situations. From that point of view, Roberts is never going to get 'Coach of the Year'.

Roberts maintained the top spot in the district by mobilizing powerful players in this year's regular season, but in the second half of the season, he failed to prevent a fall and gave up the top spot. Although he regained the top spot and finished the regular season, there are not many special elements of moving drama here. You can't get a ticket like this. BBWAA's standards are as clear as this. If you don't impress, you don't even have a ticket.

This article was translated by Naver AI translator.