MILWAUKEE — The Brewers have lengthy prioritized continuity of their staffing selections, and they’re placing that philosophy to make use of within the alternative of their new supervisor.
A supply confirmed to MLB.com that the Brewers had been finalizing plans to advertise Pat Murphy to supervisor after he served as Milwaukee’s bench coach for the final eight seasons, as first reported by The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal on Monday night time. The supply additionally mentioned that former Milwaukee infielder Rickie Weeks was anticipated to affix the Main League employees to backfill Murphy’s spot, persevering with a meteoric rise by means of the teaching ranks that started with Weeks’ rent as a participant improvement assistant in February 2022.
The membership has not confirmed both promotion. Murphy, who turns 65 later this month, was the one managerial candidate talked about by identify by Milwaukee GM Matt Arnold because the search started with Craig Counsell’s departure for the Cubs final week.
Murphy would inherit a training employees principally intact, since Brewers proprietor Mark Attanasio mentioned final week that the group’s different coaches all had signed contracts to return in 2024. They’re pitching coach Chris Hook; bullpen coach Jim Henderson; affiliate pitching, catching and technique coach Walker McKinven; hitting coaches Ozzie Timmons and Connor Dawson; first-base coach Quintin Berry; third-base coach Jason Lane; and coach Néstor Corredor. They might be joined by Weeks, 41, who was the second general choose within the 2003 Draft and performed components of 14 seasons within the Majors, together with with the Brewers (11 seasons) and three different groups, making the Nationwide League All-Star group with Milwaukee in 2011.
On the helm shall be Murphy, who was Counsell’s faculty coach at Notre Dame and got here to Milwaukee as bench coach in 2016, when Counsell was going into his first full season on the helm. Earlier than that Murphy spent many years within the faculty ranks, having led packages at Notre Dame and Arizona State earlier than leaping into professional ball with the Padres. Murphy picked up some Main League managerial expertise with the Padres in an interim position in 2015 and compiled a 42-54 file.
Requested what qualities he was on the lookout for within the subsequent supervisor, Arnold mentioned, “I wish to begin with the very best human, might be the best way I might characterize it. It’s arduous to go improper when you might have, in the event you’re utilizing the scouting scale, an ‘80’ human. I believe that will be our precedence right here.”
Murphy performed 4 years of Minor League baseball earlier than Notre Dame employed him forward of the 1988 collegiate season. It was in Murphy’s second season that Counsell arrived on campus, starting a relationship that continued as Counsell went off to play professional ball, and Murphy went on to be head coach at Arizona State earlier than the Padres employed him in 2010, first as a particular assistant after which as a Minor League supervisor starting in 2011. In ’15, Murphy was managing San Diego’s Triple-A group when Counsell tried to rent him away as bench coach; the Padres denied permission and finally elevated Murphy to interim supervisor within the Majors later that season.
The next 12 months, Murphy joined the Brewers employees and he’s been in Milwaukee ever since. He suffered a coronary heart assault in 2020 throughout so-called “summer season camp” as groups readied for the pandemic-shortened schedule, however Murphy recovered absolutely and has not endured any health-related absences since.