Source: New York Post
MILWAUKEE – We almost found out if Brewers manager Pat Murphy’s folksy, blunt style would work in New York. After the 2019 season, Murphy was the choice of then-Mets GM Brodie Van Wagenen to succeed Mickey Callaway, Murphy revealed to me and Van Wagenen confirmed in a phone call (Van Wagenen is now Murphy’s agent). See Also New York Yankees Aaron Boone’s Yankees return was a safe, predictable call in the specter or uncertainty Murphy, then Milwaukee’s bench coach, was a finalist with Carlos Beltrán and Eduardo Perez and remembers his only reservation about a job he badly wanted is that the Wilpon Mets flew him for three rounds of interviews and each time he was in a middle seat in coach.
