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title: "Milwaukee’s Pat Murphy Takes Third Straight NL Manager Award"
url: https://www.heremilwaukee.com/2026/11/11/brewers-pat-murphy-third-straight-manager-of-the-year/
date: 2026-11-11T05:01:41-06:00
modified: 2026-11-11T05:01:41-06:00
author: "Marina Freeman"
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# Milwaukee’s Pat Murphy Takes Third Straight NL Manager Award

> MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Brewers manager Pat Murphy has become the first manager in baseball history to win a Manager of the Year award three years in a row, collecting the National League honor Tuesday night, Nov. 10, from a Milwaukee hospital bed where he is recovering from hip replacement surgery. Murphy collected 124 points, including

*Source: [HERE Milwaukee](https://www.heremilwaukee.com/2026/11/11/brewers-pat-murphy-third-straight-manager-of-the-year/) — November 11, 2026 by Marina Freeman*

MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Brewers manager Pat Murphy has become the first manager in baseball history to win a Manager of the Year award three years in a row, collecting the National League honor Tuesday night, Nov. 10, from a Milwaukee hospital bed where he is recovering from hip replacement surgery.

Murphy collected 124 points, including 20 of the 30 first-place ballots, in a vote of the writers’ association that covers the sport. Atlanta skipper Walt Weiss was the runner-up, with Philadelphia’s Don Mattingly in third place. Those ballots were turned in before the postseason started, so the Brewers’ October run played no part in the result.

The timing was an accident. Murphy chose the date for the operation roughly a month ago, after the World Series was safely over, and gave no thought to when the award would be announced. Doctors replaced his right hip on Monday, and he joined a call with reporters Tuesday night from bed, joking that he had nothing else to do. He turns 68 on Nov. 28.

No one had strung together three in a row before, for an award that dates to 1983. Bobby Cox took it in 2004 and 2005, and Kevin Cash won the American League version in 2020 and 2021. Murphy and Cleveland’s Stephen Vogt each earned theirs in 2024 and 2025, but only Murphy extended his run to a third year. Only three managers have won it three times with one organization: Cox with the Atlanta Braves, Terry Francona with Cleveland and Dusty Baker with the San Francisco Giants.

The résumé behind the vote is lopsided. Milwaukee won 93 games in 2024 and 97 in 2025, then set a franchise record with 103 in 2026, the best mark in the majors and three better than the Los Angeles Dodgers. In October the Brewers swept the Dodgers out of the NL Championship Series and then beat Tampa Bay in five games, taking the first World Series crown in franchise history. They did it with a payroll of $125.5 million at the start of the season, 19th in the league, while the Dodgers began the year at $322.4 million.

Milwaukee was 55-26 at home, 45-30 against clubs that finished above .500 and 22-8 down the stretch. The lineup ranked second in the majors with 850 runs, using an all-fields approach instead of leaning on home runs. Starter Jacob Misiorowski posted a 16-5 record, a majors-best 1.80 ERA and 252 strikeouts. Brice Turang, the second baseman, is among the NL MVP finalists, and Trevor Megill, the closer, is a candidate for the new reliever award in the league.

His own playing career stalled in the minor leagues after four seasons, and he turned to coaching. Murphy piled up 318 victories at Notre Dame and 629 at Arizona State, and he filled in as the San Diego Padres’ interim skipper in 2015. In 2016 Craig Counsell hired him as Milwaukee’s bench coach. After Counsell departed for the Chicago Cubs following the 2023 season, Murphy was handed his first full-time big-league managing job just shy of his 65th birthday. In August 2020, he suffered a heart attack the same day the club held a workout in Milwaukee.

Next up in the awards cycle are the Cy Young honors and the top reliever awards on Wednesday, followed by the MVP announcements Thursday. Murphy said the credit belongs to hungry players who live up to the team’s standards, and his next job is to get that same group to chase it again in 2027.