Age is just a number.

Pat Murphy spent 14 years in MLB as an executive and coach before getting his first chance to be a team’s full-time manager. That opportunity finally came in 2024 with the Brewers, when he won National League Manager of the Year Brewers at 65 years old.

Murphy followed that up with a second straight NL Manager of the Year Award in 2025 after the Brewers led the Majors with 97 wins. In both years, Murphy also landed on this list of the oldest to win a Manager of the Year Award.

Below is the all-time leaderboard, via the Elias Sports Bureau. All listed ages are as of that team’s first game of the season.

1. Jack McKeon, 2003 Marlins

Age: 72 years, 169 days

Team result: 91-71, beat Yankees in World Series

Across the last three decades of the 20th century, McKeon

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