New York (AFP) – Milwaukee’s Pat Murphy and Cleveland’s Stephen Vogt were each named Major League Baseball’s managers of the year Tuesday for the second consecutive season. They were the first managers to win the award in back-to-back years in their first two years in the job. The only prior managers of the year in consecutive seasons were Tampa Bay’s Kevin Cash in 2020-21 and Atlanta’s Bobby Cox in 2004-05.
Murphy won the National League’s award after guiding the Brewers to a 97-65 campaign, MLB’s best record, before losing to the eventual champion Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL championship series. The 66-year-old American led Milwaukee to a 93-69 mark last year in his first season after serving as a bench coach and taking over the job when Craig Counsell departed. The Brewers were eliminated in the 2024 wildcard round.
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Milwaukee began this season 0-4 and gave up 47 runs in that span, but the Brewers had a team record 14-game win streak on the way to the best record in team history and a seventh playoff appearance in eight years.
Vogt, 41, took the American League Manager of the Year award after going 88-74 and guiding the Guardians to the AL Central division crown. Cleveland lost in this year’s wildcard round to Detroit after going on a 19-4 run late in the season to edge the Tigers for the division title. In Vogt’s first season as Cleveland’s manager last year, the team went 92-69 and won the division but lost to the New York Yankees in the AL championship series.
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