It's hard work putting together a winning franchise in the major leagues and no one knows about that job better than the Milwaukee Brewers' Matt Arnold.

Through his efforts, along with others in the Brewers front office, carried Milwaukee into the National League Championship Series in 2025. Despite being swept by the eventual World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers, the fact that Arnold and his crew got the Brew Crew in position to be there is worth recognizing.

MLB voters recognized his game was still good. On Thursday night, Arnold received his second consecutive Executive of the Year award. Arnold made sure to share the wealth with everyone else in the Milwaukee front office that helps out, too.

While Arnold accepted his honor, he asked some very important people to stand up and be honored. They included Brewers assistant GMs Matt Kleine, Karl Mueller and Will Hudgens, executive advisor Matt Klentak, senior VP of player development and performance Cam Castro, special senior assistant Carlos Villanueva and VP of research and evaluation Ethan Bein.

"Last year, I closed my speech with a heartfelt thank you to all my Brewers teammates,” Arnold said at Thursday night’s MLB Awards, per MLB.com. "However, after the ceremony, these guys were a little sensitive that they didn't get enough love in my speech.

"A little confused, I went back and checked my notes. On the note pad, in my chicken scratch, it said, ‘There is no chance I'm here without you guys’ and I had ‘no chance’ underlined as a point of emphasis. This was the only point I underlined on the entire page. But, it wasn't enough."

Arnold then asked his crew to stand up. They did and all in attendance gave them a warm round of applause.

Arnold is now the Brewers' president of baseball operations as well as general manager. He's been working closely with NL Manager of the Year Pat Murphy to make sure the team is headed in the right direction.

He pulled off a deal that brought Caleb Durbin from the New York Yankees, along with starting pitcher Nestor Cores, to the Brewers in exchange for ace reliever Devin Williams. Cortes didn't offer much to Milwaukee last season, but Durbin established himself as a solid infield option for Murphy.

As long as Arnold is in control of the Brewers front office, team ownership knows that they have a solid guy in the room to make the right decisions.