For the first time in MLB history, someone managed to win three consecutive Manager of the Year awards.

Milwaukee Brewers manager Pat Murphy secured the three-peat by being named the 2026 National League Manager of the Year on Tuesday, Nov. 10.

Murphy accepted his award from a hospital bed, proving just how one-of-one the Brewers skipper truly is.

In total, he received 20 of 30 first-place votes. That's still an incredible feat, but Milwaukee smashed every projection thrown its way this season, and that's all thanks to Murphy.

Coming into the 2026 season, PECOTA, known as the Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm, projected the Brewers to finish with 80.5 wins.

Brewers fans don't need to be reminded that this was not just the best regular season in franchise history with 103 wins, but also the best overall season, as it was capped off with the organization's first-ever World Series championship.

Remember, only the regular season counts for this award, but Murphy and the Brewers won 22.5 games above expected compared to the Atlanta Braves’ 1.8 wins and the Philadelphia Phillies’ 2.9 wins.

There's no arguing the fact that Murphy won Manager of the Year over Don Mattingly and Walt Weiss; it's just the fact that he received a trio of third-place votes that makes things interesting.

One of the great things about the BBWAA awards is the fact that everything is public information.

The complete list of votes received was revealed after Murphy emerged victorious, and it was shown that he received 20 of 30 first-place votes.

Weiss received seven, a number that doesn't even make sense when looking at what the Braves did compared to their projected win total.

Craig Stammen, the San Diego Padres manager whose team Milwaukee knocked out in the National League Division Series, received a pair of first-place votes while Mattingly got one himself.

Murphy's seven second-place votes were the second most, only trailing Weiss's 16. It's clear the Braves manager was Murphy's only real competition, but at the end of the day there were still a few things that didn't add up.

Murphy getting three third-place votes was a bit eye-opening, to say the least, and the only reason for that is voter fatigue.

To make things even more interesting, Craig Counsell received a random second-place vote. Not a single voter gave him a first- or third-place vote, but somehow he snuck in there with three points compared to Murphy's 124.