Pat Murphy named 2024 NL Manager of the Year

Pat Murphy named 2024 NL Manager of the Year

First-year Milwaukee Brewers manager Pat Murphy was named the 2024 National League Manager of the Year, MLB announced Tuesday. He’s the first manager in franchise history to win the award.

Murphy, 65, spent seven seasons on Craig Counsell‘s staff as a bench coach before taking the managerial job last year after Counsell’s abrupt departure. He won the award over San Diego’s Mike Shildt and New York’s Carlos Mendoza. Murphy earned 27 of the 30 first-place votes, with the other three going to Shildt, Mendoza and Philadelphia’s Rob Thomson.

Diamondbacks manager Torey Luvullo earned a pair of second-place votes while Atlanta’s Brian Snitker, Los Angeles’ Dave Roberts and St. Louis’ Oliver Marmol, who didn’t deserve to be in the conversation after a second consecutive season full of disaster.

Even after trading away ace Corbin Burnes, the Brewers still won the NL Central by 10 games over Chicago and St. Louis, finishing 93-69. Its record was the sixth-best in franchise history and the best since 2021, when it went 95-67.

Before his stint in Milwaukee, Murphy was a very successful manager at the collegiate level with Notre Dame and Arizona State. Over his 22-year career in both stops, he went 629-284-1, including becoming the youngest collegiate coach to reach 500 career wins in 1998. He won seven combined conference championships and advanced to the College World Series four times.

That experience paid off, didn’t it? Given all of the injuries and different arms in the rotation in 2024, he still found a way to rally the troops together when nobody thought they had a chance at repeating as division champs. The season ended unfortunately, but it was a successful season for Milwaukee, albeit with plenty of room to improve entering 2025.

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