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 2

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