When they both won Manager of the Year for the first time in 2024, Pat Murphy and Stephen Vogt talked about showing up to the annual baseball writers' dinner in New York to receive the awards in costume.

The two knew each other from Vogt's two-year stint as a player in Milwaukee, where Murphy was then the bench coach. At first, Murphy, now the Brewers' manager, proposed he dress up as King Jaffe Joffer from "Coming to America," and Vogt, the Cleveland Guardians ' skipper, suggested he would sprinkle rose petals as they ascended the dais. They scratched that idea and pivoted to the blue-and-orange tuxedos from "Dumb and Dumber." Eventually, they agreed that it was probably best to just play it straight.

"You've probably got 10 more of these," Murphy told Vogt. "This will be my last one.

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