{"id":582536,"date":"2026-02-20T08:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/582536\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T08:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:15:15","slug":"brewers-agree-to-extension-with-manager-pat-murphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/582536\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers agree to extension with manager Pat Murphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) &#8211; The Milwaukee Brewers and manager Pat Murphy reached a deal on a two-year contract extension, according to reports by MLB.com and The Athletic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The new deal also includes a club option for the 2029 season, when Murphy would turn 71 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to Jeff Passan of ESPN, Murphy saw his pay bump to a guaranteed $8.95 million dollars. That would make Murphy one of the highest paid managers in all of baseball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Murphy has seen a lot of success in Milwaukee since being named the manager following Craig Counsell\u2019s departure for Chicago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Murphy went on to lead Milwaukee to back-to-back NL Central titles, and won consecutive National League Manager of the Year honors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In 2025, the Brewers finished with an MLB-leading 97-65 record and advanced to the NLCS, when they were swept by the World Series champion Dodgers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WBAY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) &#8211; The Milwaukee Brewers and manager Pat Murphy reached a deal on a two-year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2401],"tags":[5,136,8054,8887,56458,843,59,4280,4,4937,6077],"class_list":{"0":"post-582536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-brewers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-brewers","10":"tag-extension","11":"tag-manager","12":"tag-manager-of-the-year","13":"tag-milwaukee","14":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","15":"tag-milwaukeebrewers","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-nl","18":"tag-pat-murphy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116101967030884424","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}