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Omar Vizquel of the Winston-Salem Dash has been named the Carolina League’s manager of the year.

Vizquel, who was managing for the first time in the minor leagues, is the third manager in franchise history to win the league award. Joe McEwing won the award in 2009 and ’10 and Tommy Thompson was the winner in 2012.

Vizquel, 51, guided he Dash to the Carolina League playoffs as it went 85-54 in the regular-season. The 84 wins is the second-highest in franchise history.

After Vizquel managed the Dash to a first-half Southern Division championship with a 41-29 record, the Venezuela native was at the helm as the club won a second-half title by going 43-25. This season marked the fourth time in the Dash era in which the club had finished atop the standings in both halves of a Carolina League season.

Before joining the White Sox organization, the former star shortstop served as a first base coach with the Detroit Tigers from 2014 through 2017.

Over his 24 major league baseball career, Vizquel established himself as one of the best defensive shortstops of all-time. He holds the record at his position with a .985 fielding percentage, and he also won nine Gold Gloves in a row between 1993 and 2001.

Also for the Dash, designated hitter Micker Adolfo, catcher Yermin Mercedes and outfielder Blake Rutherford earned Carolina League All-Star selections. Winston-Salem was the only club in the 10-team league to boast three hitters on the year-end list.

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