NEW YORK — Fifteen minutes into a news conference Wednesday, the day after pulling rookie Cooper Pratt from a game, Milwaukee Brewers manager Pat Murphy looked up at his office’s ceiling and winced.“I don’t want it to become about me in any way,” Murphy said.Too late. The youthful Brewers’ success and Murphy’s style of upholding a standard are inextricable.They’re also outliers.There isn’t another team quite like the high-powered, low-budget Brewers (81-51), who routinely jockey for baseball’s best record while relying on a bunch of homegrown and mostly young players.And there isn’t another manager operating quite like Murphy, who sometimes speaks disapprovingly and candidly about player performance. At times, Murphy has gone a step further by either yanking a player from a game or benching them outright for what he perceives as a lack of focus. Pratt was just the latest example.If the Brewers’ win total isn’t sufficient evidence, there’s also their insistence that Murphy’s approach not only works, it’s necessary.“For our team, it has to be that way,” said Christian Yelich, the club’s longest-tenured position player and the only one making more than $10 million this season ($26 million). “We’ve all agreed amongst ourselves to play a certain type of way and hold each other accountable for playing that way.”Murphy indeed has a way of putting things more bluntly.“If you don’t have those $30 million players,” he said, “then you gotta be a little bit uncommon.”Keith Law on the Astros' GM firingKeith LawThe case of pulling Pratt is nuanced. Murphy took him out after the rookie failed to run hard out of the batter’s box following a fifth-inning popup. That wasn’t the only reason. A failed bunt attempt earlier in the game ticked off Murphy. And he said a couple of other things likely contributed to the decision without sharing specifics on whatever else Pratt did or didn’t do. It was time, in Murphy’s estimation, to get a point across.