Mets Daniel Murphy to Receive Thurman Munson Rising Star Award

Shannon will be happy about this. #Iamwith28This comes from Adam Rubin over from Twitter.

Daniel Murphy is inaugural “Thurman Rising Star Award” winner. It will be presented at 32nd annual Thurman Munson Awards Dinner Jan. 31.Murphy will join Yogi Berra, Mark Teixeira, R.A. Dickey, Chris Mullin and Dikembe Mutombo at Munson Dinner at Grand Hyatt in NYC on 1/31.

Congratulations to Daniel Murphy on this award. Good to see the guy that made Mr. Shark speechless win this award. Congratulations are also in order for RA Dickey for also getting an award that night and for being inducted into the Tennessee Baseball Hall of Fame.