Pat Murphy wins third straight NL Manager of the Year
sportsNov 10, 202619573
Pat Murphy of the World Series champion Milwaukee Brewers won the NL Manager of the Year, becoming the first skipper in either league to win the award three consecutive seasons. The Brewers posted a franchise-record 103 regular-season wins, swept the two-time defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS and defeated the Tampa Bay Rays in a five-game World Series. Milwaukee has won the NL Central in each of Murphy’s three seasons as manager after he spent eight years on Craig Counsell’s staff. Murphy, who turns 68 on Nov. 28, accepted interviews about the award from a hospital bed while recovering from hip replacement surgery. Balloting by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America was conducted before the postseason; Murphy received 20 of 30 first-place votes and finished with 124 points, with Philadelphia’s Don Mattingly and Atlanta’s Walt Weiss as the other NL finalists. The Brewers finished the regular season with the best record in MLB for the second straight year despite playing in baseball’s smallest market and carrying a payroll in the bottom half of the majors. Will Venable won the AL Manager of the Year with 15 first-place votes and 111 points; his AL finalists were Kevin Cash and Chad Tracy.
