MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee Brewers manager Pat Murphy was voted National League Manager of the Year on Tuesday for the third season in a row, making him the first manager in big-league history to win the Baseball Writers’ Association of America award three straight times.
Murphy, 67, took 20 of the 30 first-place votes. Atlanta’s Walt Weiss placed second with seven first-place votes, and Philadelphia’s Don Mattingly was the other finalist. San Diego’s Craig Stammen finished fourth.
Until now, no manager had won more than two in a row. Bobby Cox did it in 2004 and 2005, Kevin Cash in 2020 and 2021, and Stephen Vogt in 2024 and 2025.
Ballots were turned in when the regular season ended, so the voting reflected Milwaukee’s franchise-best 103 wins rather than its October run. Milwaukee then knocked off Tampa Bay, the top regular-season team in the American League, in a five-game World Series to claim the first title in club history.
Murphy accepted the honor while recovering in a hospital bed from recent hip replacement surgery, he said during the league’s broadcast of the announcement.
He took over in Milwaukee after the 2023 season, moving up from bench coach when Craig Counsell left for the Chicago Cubs. No Brewers manager had won the award before Murphy, who has now drawn 74 of 90 possible NL first-place votes across his three seasons.
The American League prize went to Will Venable, 43, after his Chicago White Sox climbed from 60 wins to 84.
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