Roger Mooney covers the Tampa Bay Rays for The Tampa Tribune, TBO.com and News Channel 8. He has covered the Rays since their first season in 1998, including 11 years for the Bradenton Herald. Roger has also covered Florida, South Florida and Florida State football, the Bucs and the Lightning.
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Posted Aug 24, 2011 by Roger Mooney
Updated Aug 24, 2011 at 03:32 PM

ROGER MOONEY
ST. PETERSBURG Maybe it’s because he tries to put his players in a position where they can be successful or because he accentuates the positives as well as the negatives when critiquing their play or because he never, ever, never, ever rips them in the media, whatever the reason, major league players polled by Sports Illustrated picked Joe Maddon as the most popular manager.
Here is the link:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/1108/most.popular.manager/content.1.html
SI lists to the top-15.
Rounding out the top-5 are Terry Francona, Jim Leyland, Mike Scioscia and Dusty Baker.
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