Pat Murphy is grateful the Milwaukee Brewers have given him the opportunity to manage again for the first time in nearly a decade.
It's an opportunity he didn't know he would ever get again.
"You realize how lucky you are to be part of something," Murphy said Thursday at his introductory news conference. "What we have growing here was unbelievable. I never thought it would be here. These things happen, and all of a sudden I'm here."
The Brewers made Murphy a major league manager for the first time since 2015 when they promoted the former bench coach to take over for Craig Counsell, who left to manage the Chicago Cubs.