Why Terry Collins deserves Manager of the Year

Yes, you heard it from me.

Mets Manager Terry Collins whose team held a 77-83 record in 2011, deserves the National League Manager of the Year honors.

And here is why.

Quite simply, Collins took what he had, (a mediocre pitching staff, error prone infield, and lack of a staff ace, as well as trades of his team's top reliever and power hitter), and still led the Mets to a good season.

With the injuries (Ike Davis, David Wright, Jose Reyes, Johan Santana), the disappointments and underachievers (Jason Bay, Angel Pagan, MIKE PELFREY!), Terry Collins took over the New York MESS, and turned them into winners, if not in record, than in spirit.

He took a team whose owners are awful, whose players were hurt left and Wright, and who have been not much more than a laughing stock for the past few years, and turned them into a positive story. He believed in the Mets from Day 1 of Spring Training, until game 162, and it showed in his managing and the way he handled the trades.