Manager didn’t get Tampa into ALCS by accident RED SOX NOTES ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— In Anaheim, he was called “John Madden” in some interview transcripts, but after he wins this year’s American League Manager of the Year Award, nobody is likely to confuse Rays skipper Joe Maddon with anybody from the NFL again. Maddon did a once-in-a-generation job in getting Tampa Bay to the ALCS, and it wasn’t an accident. He had a plan when he took over three years ago. “I knew coming into this,” Maddon said yesterday, “I thought this was kind of like a place for just for potential major league players sometimes to hang out and say they were in the big leagues. Nobody was really concerned that much about winning; just being here was good enough. “That was one of the main parts or components about changing the culture here — to move beyond...
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