Will Venable, Pat Murphy Win AL, NL Manager Year 2026 Awards, Full MLB Voting Results

After leading their respective teams to historic seasons, Milwaukee Brewers manager Pat Murphy and Chicago White Sox manager Will Venable received some new hardware to recognize their efforts.

Murphy has made history by winning his third consecutive NL Manager of the Year award after leading the Brewers to their first championship in franchise history.

Meanwhile, after leading the White Sox to a historic turnaround, Venable has been rewarded for his efforts with the 2026 AL Manager of the Year award.

Venable received 15 first-place votes and 111 total points from the BBWAA voting to finish ahead of Kevin Cash of the Tampa Bay Rays and Chad Tracy of the Boston Red Sox.

There were nine managers in MLB history who have won Manager of the Year at least three times, but none of them had ever done it consecutively until Murphy.

The 67-year-old Murphy, already regarded as perhaps the best manager in MLB coming into 2026, put together arguably his best season. He led the Brewers to a franchise-record 103 wins during the regular season.

It was the second straight year that Milwaukee has set a franchise record for wins after going 97-65 in 2025.

Murphy and the Brewers carried that positive momentum into the playoffs. They put together an 11-2 overall record that saw them win eight straight games between Game 4 of the NLDS through Game 3 of the World Series, tied with the 2014 Kansas City Royals and 2004 Boston Red Sox for the. longest streak in a single postseason.

The Brewers promoted Murphy to their managerial position in November 2023 after Craig Counsell left to take the same job with the Chicago Cubs. He has won the NL Manager of the Year every season he has been in the position.

Murphy was just one of four managers in MLB history to win back-to-back Manager of the Year awards with his victories in 2024 and 2025.

Bobby Cox of the Atlanta Braves (2004-05), Kevin Cash of the Tampa Bay Rays (2020-21) and Stephen Vogt of the Cleveland Guardians (2024-25) were the others.

With a third NL Manager of the Year award on his mantle, Murphy joins a group that includes Cox, Tony La Russa, Terry Francona, Dusty Baker, Buck Showalter, Lou Piniella, Joe Maddon, Bob Melvin and Jim Leyland as the only skippers to win the award at least three times.

Venable was originally hired by the White Sox after the 2024 season when the team set a new MLB record with 121 losses.

Chicago's first season under Venable didn't immediately stand out with a 60-102 record, but it was a 19-game improvement from the previous year.

Thanks in part to improved play from homegrown talent and outside acquisitions, most notably signing Munetaka Murakami, Venable led the White Sox to an 84-78 record in 2026 and their first playoff berth in five years.

The White Sox became the first team in MLB history to make the playoffs coming off at least two consecutive 100-loss seasons.

The White Sox first moved into first place in the AL Central on June 10, marking their first time in sole possession of the top spot in the division since April 17, 2022.

Even though the White Sox would eventually cede control of the AL Central to the Cleveland Guardians in the final weekend of the regular season, they clinched a playoff berth on Sept. 24 with a win over the Kansas City Royals.

Chicago won its first four playoff games, sweeping the Houston Astros in the AL Wild Card series and taking a 2-0 lead in the ALDS over Cleveland, to get within one win of reaching the ALCS.

The Guardians won three straight to close out the series, but Chicago's season was nothing short of a resounding success that has its future very bright.

Venable is the sixth White Sox skipper to win AL Manager of the Year. He joins past winners Tony La Russa (1983), Jeff Torborg (1990), Gene Lamont (1993), Jerry Manuel (2000) and Ozzie Guillén (2005).