Brewers Manager Pat Murphy - Photo by Todd Rosiak of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) – The Milwaukee Brewers formally named Pat Murphy as their new manager on Thursday morning.
The 64-year-old spent the past eight seasons as Milwaukee’s bench coach, working with Counsell, and Murphy will be managing Major League Baseball for the first time full-time, although following Bud Black’s firing, he served as the Padres’ temporary manager for the final 96 games of the 2015 season.
Murphy said that Milwaukee has become his family’s home since he joined the team, saying, “There’s just something about this city. I seem to be connected with the Brewers and Milwaukee. And then I started thinking: My kids look at what they call ‘Waukee’ as their home during the baseball season, and they know nothing different. It’s just a beautiful thing.”
The team also stated that former Milwaukee infielder Rickie Weeks will join the staff as an associate manager to Murphy, continuing Weeks’ rise through the coaching ranks that began with his hiring as a player development assistant in February 2022.
“I’m ready to help assist wherever I need to be behind Murph,” Weeks said. “And I’m just ready to work, period. There’s a certain ballplayer that you want, there’s a certain team that you want, and there’s a certain leadership that you want. And it’s all right here, I think.”
Milwaukee’s other coaches are all returning. Pitching coach Chris Hook, hitting coaches Ozzie Timmons and Connor Dawson, first-base coach Quintin Berry, third-base coach Jason Lane, and assistant pitching coach Jim Henderson round out the coaching staff.
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