According to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic, the mystery candidate for the Mets’ managerial opening is Milwaukee Brewers’ bench coach Pat Murphy.
Murphy, 60, has been in the game of baseball for over 30 years.
The Syracuse native was the head coach of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish from 1988-94 where he compiled a 318-116-1 record and is where he coached current Brewers’ manager, Craig Counsell.
After his time at Notre Dame, Murphy was appointed the head coach of the Arizona State University Sun Devils where he remained until 2009.
During his time with ASU, the baseball team captured Pac-10 Coach of the Year four times and was named Baseball America’s Coach of the Year in 1998.
From 2010-15, Murphy coached in the San Diego Padres organization. In 2015, Murphy was the interim manager of the San Diego Padres after Bud Black was fired, but was not retained after the season.
Since 2016, Murphy has been the bench coach under Counsell in Milwaukee.
“Before it was the ‘norm’ Pat Murphy transitioned out of a successful 20+ year Div. I college coaching career into professional baseball and became a big league manager and bench coach,” former Met Glendon Rusch told MetsMerized’s Tim Ryder. “He quickly became one of my favorite coaches I had the pleasure of being around during my first year as a coach with the Padres. I think Murph will be a great big league manager and his guys will love playing for him.”
There is now five known finalists for the Mets’ managerial position: Murphy, Carlos Beltran, Tim Bogar, Derek Shelton and Eduardo Perez.
