Cleveland's Stephen Vogt, Milwaukee's Pat Murphy win Manager of the Year awards

Milwaukee's Pat Murphy won National League Manager of the Year on Tuesday after a stellar debut season with the Brewers, while Cleveland's Stephen Vogt took the AL honor after leading the Guardians to 92 wins and a division title in his first year as a skipper at any level.

Murphy, 65, led the Brewers to an NL Central title, a 93-69 record and is the franchise's first manager to earn the award since it was introduced in 1983. In the playoffs, Milwaukee lost to the New York Mets in a three-game wild-card series.

Murphy had an unusual career path to big league success — he was a longtime college coach at Notre Dame and Arizona State before moving to the professional ranks in 2010. He worked in the Padres' minor league system until 2015 when he was hired to be Milwaukee's bench coach under Craig Counsell, who played for Murphy at Notre Dame.

After Counsell left for the Cubs during the offseason, the Brewers quickly turned to Murphy. The transition was nearly seamless.

Murphy beat San Diego's Mike Shildt and New York's Carlos Mendoza. He received 27 of the 30 first-place votes in balloting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Shildt, Mendoza and Philadelphia's Rob Thomson each received one vote.

The 40-year-old Vogt beat Kansas City's Matt Quatraro and Detroit's A.J. Hinch, both AL Central rivals. He's the first AL manager to win the award in his debut season since Minnesota's Rocco Baldelli did it in 2019. He's also the first to go from player to Manager of the Year in just two years.

The previous fastest was Joe Girardi from 2003 to 2006, when he won NL Manager of the Year with the Florida Marlins.

Vogt received 27 of the 30 first-place votes. Quatraro got two and Hinch one.

Vogt led the Guardians to a 92-69