Kevin Cash has been named the American League's top manager for the second year in a row.

Cash has led the Tampa Bay Rays to consecutive division titles.

He is just the second man to win the award in back-to-back years. Bobby Cox won the honor while with the Atlanta Braves in 2004 and 2005.

"That's wrong -- I shouldn't be," Cash said of being mentioned in the same sentence as Cox. "But saying that, it's incredibly humbling. When you think about grace in our game, Bobby Cox is right there, certainly as a manager, and then certainly at the top with the impact he had on people. To be able to share something really, really small with him is pretty special."

Cash received 19 of 30 first-place votes from the Baseball Writers' Association of America.