manager Buck Showalter has been named the 2022 National League Manager of the Year, MLB and the Baseball Writers A sociation of America announced Tuesday. Showalter beat out skipper Dave Roberts and manager Brian Snitker for the award. Showalter is the first Mets manager ever to be named Manager of the Year.Here are the final results of the vote ( ):1. Showalter (eight first-place votes)2. Roberts (eight first-place votes)3. Snitker (seven first-place votes)4 Siran Neal Jersey . Oliver Marmol, Cardinals (five first-place votes)5. Rob Thomson, Phillies (two first-place votes)6. Bob Melvin, PadresFor Showalter, this is his fourth Manager of the Year award. He also won it with the in 1994, the in 2004, and the in 2014. Showalter is the first manager in history to win Manager of the Year with Duke Johnson Jersey four different teams. He joins Hall of Famers Bobby Cox and Tony La Ru sa as the only managers to win it four times period. Showalter guided the Mets to 101-61 Buffalo Bills Jersey record in 2022, the second winningest season in franchise history behind the 108-win World Series championship team in 1986. The Mets were eliminated in three games by the in the new Wild Card Series, though Manager of the Year is a regular season award and votes were submitted before the postseason.While 101 wins are certainly impre sive, the Mets did blow a 10 1/2-game division lead this season, and finished second to the Braves in the NL East. Atlanta also went 101-61, though they held the tiebreaker after sweeping the Mets in the final weekend of the regular season. The 10 1/2-game lead is the third largest blown division lead in baseball history:1951 Brooklyn Dodgers: 13 games1995 California : 11 Khalil Shakir Jersey games2022 New York Mets: 10 1/2 gamesThe Yankees famously erased a 14-game deficit to win the AL East in 1978, though they were in fourth place at the time. The never led the AL East by more than 10 games that season. Roberts led the Dodgers to a 111-win regular season this year, tied for the fourth most wins in a single season in history. Snitker's Braves erased that 10 1/2-game deficit Levi Wallace Jersey against the Mets to win their fifth consecutive NL East title. He'd previously been named NL Manager of the Year in 2018. Roberts won the award in 2016.