2025 NLCS: Pat Murphy praises Dodgers & Shohei Ohtani ‘greatest performance’ after sweeping Brewers

[Music] with uh Pat Murphy. Please raise your hands for questions. Start with Paul here. Murf, obviously not the ending you wanted. I mean, what’ you say to the guys in there just about the season as a a whole here. I mean, I we’ve uh we’ve talked about being an inch from the top and an inch from the bottom and uh you know, we faced u a really really talented team that played really really good. We were part of tonight an iconic, you know, maybe the best individual performance ever in a postseason game. I I don’t think anybody can argue with that. guy punches out 10 and hits three homers. Um, I’m really proud of our team. I admire our team. Enough has been said. The narrative has been said many times, but um, you know, it came to an end tonight to a team that is not only talented, played great. And we’ve talked a lot about the pitching. You just mentioned how many pitching performances they had in this series. What did you make of your offense? Was it their pitching? Was a little bit of everything? Just what’ you see from the offense over the four games? Well, since the beginning of time in baseball when you’re you have dominant pitching on the m throwing 98 to 100 every guy and uh with tremendous offspe pitches, the command they showed. Will Smith deserves a ton of credit. Um yeah, I said it was dominant pitching. If you want to say our offense, I think most offenses would struggle, you know. Go here in the front row. Sophia Murf, when you think about this team and, you know, some of the performances you got from the young guys, right? Guys like Chad and Miz and Caleb, um, what what do you want them to take away from this season and and the experience of the DS and playing against a team like the Dodgers? Yeah, I mean, it’s it’s a great experience. Um, but that’s where you got to go. That’s why the little things matter. That’s all the things we harp on matter because we don’t have as big a margin of error when you don’t you’re not your team is not filled with the same amount of talent. So, um, we learn a lot from it. We had a lot of young players. You mentioned Durban, you know, uh, Cheerios in his second year. Um, you know, he looked pretty comfortable the whole series. So, it’s uh yeah, a lot of good things. Chad, Patrick, Miz, a lot of guys stepped up. So, um excited about that for them that they have experienced this. They’ve seen it firsthand. They know how precious it is. Um you lead the league in in wins and you do some great things for the franchise, but still, you know, there’s there’s work to be done. So the emotional series in the Cubs is you guys have to know the Brewers Cubs thing well. You have to have been part of it to understand how it really zapped um a lot out of us emotionally and then to have to come back and play right away. Um I think and then we lose a one-run game and it just takes us off us. It took us off it a little bit. And then the pitching performances by the Dodgers uh you know basically uh put the hammer down. Questions back here to Paul Murf. Not a lot of free agents. I mean this is pretty much the team you could run back with next year. How do you feel about that? And how much you looking forward to getting another shot at it with largely the same group? Yeah, I mean uh we’ll see. You know, you say that but that’s not just how it always works. But um right now we just have to sit back and look at our health and make sure guys are getting healthy, guys that need offseason um procedures and things to get done uh can stay healthy. Uh we give them a plan of attack going forward and uh yeah, I mean I love the guys. I love I love what they bring to the table. I love their possibilities um going forward. Um but like every year we’ll look we’ll look at a little different for sure. Any more questions for Pat? All right, Pat, thank you for coming in and congratulations on a great season. Thanks, man. Appreciate it. Thank you, guys.

Milwaukee Brewers manager praised the Los Angeles Dodgers and Shohei Ohtani having the “greatest individual” postseason performance after an NLCS sweep.
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32 comments

  1. How do the Brewers fix this for next year so this font happe again i am a frustrated fan that is getting tired of loosing an tired of the excuses for losing every year

  12. In the season you beat the Dodgers 6-0. You sweep them twice. Then lose to them like this? This was one of the most pathetic displays of baseball I have ever seen. The player that played the best was the one they were all scared to play in the first place. The Miz was great.

  14. He was a goof ball dufus all week, but finally here he shows why he’s a decent manager. It almost felt like the moment was too big for him earlier. But well done here, finally.

  17. I don't blame Murphy for walking Othani in fordt 3 games and then pitched to Othani 3 tines for dingers. He probaly knew that the series was over and giving up solo homes were easier than runners on bases and drag out innings longer.

  18. He gives too much credit for teams that have such high salary player's and that can defer money because of the large markets
    . Nothing is going to change in baseball unless they change the rules on how much a team can defer money .
    It just isn't fair

  20. The Cubs series "zapped" them lol. Oh man … cope Murph. You're a legend and you have a lot of class. Hope you're back chasing another run.

  22. Ohtani's $700 million contract has $680 million deferred, lowering his luxury tax hit to $46 million per year compared to the $70 million average annual value.

    And this is fair to the League bs

  28. If Doyers would have lost the series, the sentiments would have been WAY different. Ugh Dodger fans. They are soooo understanding here. Iam only an 88' Dodger fan

  30. Manfred's proposed solutions
    While the details are under negotiation for the next Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) in December 2026, Manfred has discussed several potential changes:
    Centralized media rights: By having the league take control of all teams' local broadcast rights, the money could be distributed more evenly, a change Manfred believes could eventually end the need for local revenue sharing.
    Revised revenue sharing: With centralized media revenue, the current system of revenue sharing could be dramatically reduced or eliminated.
    Curbing deferred money: Manfred and the owners would like to limit or eliminate the large-scale deferrals used in contracts like Shohei Ohtani's, which allow teams to exceed competitive balance tax (CBT) thresholds.
    Salary floor: In return for a potential salary cap or other restrictions, the MLBPA would likely push for a salary floor, a minimum amount every team must spend on payroll. Manfred has recently signaled that this will be a key issue in the upcoming negotiations.

    What are the main points of contention between MLB and the MLBPA regarding a salary cap?

    Elaborate on how centralized media rights could impact revenue sharing and competitive balance in MLB

  31. Here’s the thing. This means nothing if it means nothing to you. Next season you SHOULD have a chip on your shoulder. There’s no way you just say, he had a great game and there’s nothing we could do about it. Your hitting scored one run per game after winning over 100 games in the season. He hit some really tough pitches, sure that’s uncontrollable. But walks, errors, wild pitches, bats on balls, all controllable. If you fielded a D2 team against the dodgers they would’ve faired about as well as we did. And we get paid millions to not score more than a single run in a game.

    The Red Sox came back down 3-0 AFTER having gotten blown out in the playoffs the season prior. This could be what happens here if you actually use it.

    P.s. I’m aware baseball is a streaky game, but if you have no leadership outside of the manager, like Yelich just being so-so after being down 3-0, then it’ll just be a manager wasting his breath. It’s one thing to be going against great pitching and using the same approach at the plate you’ve been using all year, hitting the ball hard, but not having results. It’s another to get blown out of the water, swinging at nothing, watching meatballs get hung, and acting like you haven’t just played the last 165+ games.

  32. This dude is one hell of a badass manager 💯 keep your heads held high, Brewers fans. Yankees fan telling you that unfortunately, Ohtani and the Dodgers are inevitable.

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