After guiding the Milwaukee Brewers to their first World Series title in franchise history, manager Pat Murphy won the 2026 NL Manager of the Year award. The announcement came in a televised segment on MLB Network Tuesday. This is his third consecutive year receiving the honor as he added hardware to his collection in 2024 and 2025. The voting process concluded before the end of the regular season by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Monday’s announcement also included the other three NL managerial finalists.
Pat Murphy Makes History
Murphy received more votes than Atlanta Braves manager Walt Weiss and Philadelphia Phillies manager Don Mattingly to win the coveted award. Murphy received 20 first place votes, seven second place votes and three third place votes. Overall, he received 124 points as the only skipper to be named on all three ballots. Weiss, on the other hand, received seven first place votes and 86 total points. Mattingly, meanwhile, ended with one first place vote and 25 points.
Pat Murphy is the 10th manager in major league history to win the award three or more times. He is the first to do so in three consecutive seasons. He is one of four managers to be honored two years in a row.
Murphy joins a group of managers to win the award three times in their respective careers. The list includes Dusty Baker (1993, 1997 and 2000), Joe Maddon (2008, 2011 and 2015) and Terry Francona (2013, 2016 and 2022).
Speaking with MLB Network after receiving the award, Murphy said, “I think that you have to trust that you’re doing the right things, you’re living the right way, you have to be committed to growth and you got to be around good people.”
A Season to Remember
After falling short of reaching the 2025 World Series, the Brewers returned in 2026 with renewed expectations. They started the season 8–2 to own a 59–37 record at the end of the first half of the year. At the end of the second half of the season, the Brewers finished the regular season with a 103–59 record.
Much of the credit for their success goes to the efforts of Pat Murphy. The 67-year-old skipper led them in the postseason past the San Diego Padres in the NLD. They swept the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS. After that, the Brewers went on to defeat the Tampa Bay Rays in the 2026 World Series in five games to win their first World Series title in franchise history.
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Speaking with MLB Network about the Brewers season, Murphy added, “I think it was when the playoffs started. You saw the way they won games, how resilient they were and how they responded to every adversity. You got this feeling that they could be destined to do this.”
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