Brewers' Pat Murphy, White Sox's Will Venable win top manager awards - ESPN

Pat Murphy, who guided the Milwaukee Brewers to the first World Series title in franchise history, was again named the winner of the BBWAA's National League Manager of the Year Award on Tuesday, becoming the first to win it in three consecutive seasons.

Will Venable of the Chicago White Sox, in his second year as skipper after losing 102 games in 2025, won the American League award.

Murphy beat out finalists Walt Weiss of the Atlanta Braves and Don Mattingly of the Philadelphia Phillies, becoming the first to win three straight since the award began in 1983. Murphy had 20 first-place votes and earned 124 total points, well ahead of Weiss (seven first-place votes, 86 points) and Mattingly (one first-place vote, 25 points). Padres manager Craig Stammen finished fourth (two first-place votes, 24 points).

Venable won the AL award with 15 first-place votes and 111 points, edging out Kevin Cash of the Tampa Bay Rays, who had 12 first-place votes and 98 points. Chad Tracy of the Boston Red Sox finished third (three first-place votes, 47 points).

Voting is conducted before the postseason, but Murphy led the Brewers to a franchise-record 103 wins as they topped the majors in that category for the second consecutive season.

Three years ago, the Brewers had a big decision to make. Longtime manager Craig Counsell had departed for a big contract with the division rival Chicago Cubs. Rather than hire a younger, inexperienced manager — as was the general trend — the Brewers promoted Murphy, who was about to turn 65 and had been Counsell's bench coach the previous eight seasons.

It has proved to be the right move.

The Cubs were the consensus NL Central favorites heading into the season after the Brewers traded ace Freddy Peralta in the