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Bill Adair, Gordon Maltzberger, Larry Sherry, Sherm Lollar, Hank Aguirre, Harry Bright, Rich Donnelly, Jimmy Johnson, Matt Galante, Carlos Alfonso, Bob Didier, Bob Skinner, Rick Sweet, Tim Tolman, Tim Ireland, Chris Speier, Tom Spencer, Al Pedrique, Chip Hale, Bill Plummer, Terry Kennedy and Pat Murphy.

They are the 22 men in, in chronological order, who managed the Triple-A Tucson Toros, Tucson Sidewinders and Tucson Padres from 1969-2013.

Of those 22 managers, only two became full-time MLB managers: Hale, with the ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥ Diamondbacks, 2015-16; and Murphy, now with the Milwaukee Brewers.

Murphy, who managed the Tucson Padres in 2013, the final season of Pacific Coast League baseball in Tucson, has become a baseball star. Not only was he the National League manager of the year in 2024, leading the unsung Brewers to 93 victories, he is surely the runaway-leader as 2025’s MLB Manager of the Year. The Brewers had 77 victories through Friday, No. 1 in the big leagues.

While in Tucson, Murphy was not viewed as a popular figure. He had been ASU’s head coach from 1995-2009, reaching the College World Series four times. In Tucson, Murphy’s club went 77-67; a year later the franchise moved to El Paso. He was also viewed as part of the traitor San Diego Padres franchise, who moved the Tucson Padres to El Paso in 2014.

Now, at 58, Murphy is a rising star in major league baseball, doing more with less, working the margins in Milwaukee, winning the same way he did at ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥ State (624-224) for 15 seasons.