Milwaukee’s Pat Murphy is the NL Manager of the Year for the second straight season.
Murphy received 27 of 30 first-place votes in balloting by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, beating out Philadelphia’s Rob Thomson and Cincinnati’s Terry Francona. The results were announced on Tuesday night.
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