Dodgers manager Dave Roberts didn’t get shut out in National League Manager of the Year voting this year, at least, unlike in 2025 when he did not receive a first-, second-, or third-place vote from any of the 30 voters in the Baseball Writers Association of America.
Pat Murphy, whose Milwaukee Brewers stopped a Dodgers three-peat by sweeping them in the National League Championship Series, completed a three-peat of his own, winning National League Manager of the Year for a third consecutive season.
He’s the first manager to capture the honor three straight times in the 44-year history of the award.
Murphy was named on all 30 ballots, including 20 first-place votes. Walt Weiss of the Atlanta Braves got seven first-place votes and finished in second place. Philadelphia Phillies manager Don Mattingly was third place and received one first-place vote, while Craig Stammen of the San Diego Padres got two first-place votes and finished in fourth place.
Roberts got two second-place votes and one third-place votes for seven total points, and finished fifth in the voting. Five points are awarded for a first-place vote, three points for second place, and one point for third.
Weiss, Mattingly, and Stammen were in their first year managing their respective teams, which is usually a solid paths to votes for Manager of the Year with any sort of on-field success. Roberts won NL Manager of the Year in 2016, his first year on the job with the Dodgers, and finished second in 2017. He has finished higher than fourth place only once in the nine years since, and it took 111 wins in 2022 to do so, the most wins by a National League team in over a century, to finish in second place.
