2 of 2 | FILE – Milwaukee Brewers bench coach Pat Murphy, center, talks with Chicago Cubs bench coach Mark Loretta (19) and the umpires before a spring training baseball game Sunday, March 10, 2019, in Phoenix. After spending the last eight seasons as Craig Counsell’s bench coach, Murphy is taking over for his former boss as the Brewers’ manager, the baseball lteam announced, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023, just over a week after the Chicago Cubs announced they had hired Counsell away from Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
Murphy has big shoes to fill.
Counsell set a Brewers record for career managerial wins and led the franchise to its longest run of sustained success, including four playoff berths over the last six seasons. Counsell took over as the Brewers manager when Ron Roenicke was fired in 2015. He hired Murphy as his bench coach following that 2015 season.
The Counsell-Murphy connections go well beyond that. Murphy, who turns 65 on Nov. 28, was Notre Dame’s manager when Counsell played his college ball for the Fighting Irish from 1989-92.
Murphy’s only managerial experience in the majors came in 2015, when he went 42-54 as the San Diego Padres’ interim manager after the firing of Bud Black. When the Padres hired Andy Green as their full-time manager after the 2015 season, Murphy joined Counsell’s staff in Milwaukee.
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