Pat Murphy won his THIRD STRAIGHT Manager of the Year award from a hospital bed.
This man scheduled hip replacement surgery for after the World Series and didn’t even realize it would line up with the award announcement. So on November 10, there he was in a hospital gown on MLB Network, accepting one of the biggest honors in baseball. Incredible.
Three full seasons managing the Milwaukee Brewers. Three Manager of the Year awards. Nobody had EVER done that before.
The Brewers won 103 games this season and brought Milwaukee its first World Series championship. And remember, the voting happened BEFORE the playoffs, so winning the World Series didn’t even factor into it.
The guy finally gets a chance to sit down after one of the greatest stretches in franchise history, and baseball still finds a way to make him show up for work.
I absolutely love this. Hope Murph has a smooth recovery because he’s certainly earned a little time off.
