r/baseball • u/Admirable-Nebula-122 • 19h ago

Phillies expected to name Don Mattingly as full-time manager this week: Sources

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7688238/2026/10/14/phillies-don-mattingly-manager-job/?source=athletic_user_shared_article_copylink&smid=url-share-ta
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u/Prize_Major6183 St. Louis Cardinals 19h ago

Congratulations on the next 3 years of mediocrity Phillies fans 

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u/BoxesFullOfLemons Philadelphia Phillies 19h ago

Optimistic to think it'll be only 3 with all the aging multi year contracts still on the books.

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u/Such-Fee6176 Toronto Blue Jays 18h ago

I just looked up some of those contracts. You could turn the Phillies into a retirement home team.

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u/BrinyKnight Philadelphia Phillies 18h ago

We used to have the day care. Now all those guys are helping run the elder care facility.

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u/wolandjr 18h ago

Citizens Bank Park is where the league sends old Washington Nationala to live out their days in peace

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u/MindoverMatter92 Philadelphia Phillies 17h ago

Senior Citizens Bank Park baby!

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u/fps916 San Diego Padres 14h ago

That's our title.

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u/ih-unh-unh Los Angeles Dodgers 12h ago

We're right there with you in LA.

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u/Prize_Major6183 St. Louis Cardinals 19h ago

I figure the years after that will be bad. Losing records and irrelevant 

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u/KakeLin Philadelphia Phillies • Rays Bandwagon 13h ago

Especially trea

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u/XSC Philadelphia Phillies 18h ago

Getting eliminated in the wildcard round is a success, hang the banner!

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u/eaglesnation11 Philadelphia Phillies 18h ago

It’s funny because we actually will get a banner to hang at the ballpark (It’ll be powder blue) just like in 2023.

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u/XSC Philadelphia Phillies 18h ago

So damn pathetic lol. Don’t forget the banner for only team to get to game 3 on the WC!

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u/oogieball Dumpster Fire • New York Mets 18h ago

Well, we'll probably lose at least one of them to the labor stoppage when the owners try and force a cap next year.

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u/ZiiKiiF Philadelphia Phillies 16h ago

Jokes on you. This is lining up perfectly for us to fire him mid 2028 and have 2 really good month with another interim manager and everyone gets tricked into thinking we’re good again

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u/patrickdgd Philadelphia Phillies 18h ago

Why would hiring a specific manager make a team mediocre?

If they hired someone else, they’re all of a sudden World Series contenders?

Like what difference would it make if they brought in another established guy like say, Joe Maddon? Or promoted Dusty Wathan to manager? Or even went outside the box and brought in somebody like Raul Ibanez?

It makes no difference. The team is the team. The manager doesn’t really affect anything at all.

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u/Yeetball86 Atlanta Braves 18h ago

Having gone from a checked out Brain Snitker last year to an aggressive manager in Walt Weiss this year, the manager 100% makes a difference.

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u/melorous Atlanta Braves 17h ago

It's wild that person saying the manager doesn't matter, when just this season, their own team fired their 9-19 manager and proceeded to go 79-55 the rest of the way.

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u/wooden-spoon-88 Boston Red Sox 16h ago

Feel like Zack Wheeler coming back from injury at the same time has something to do with that

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u/Prize_Major6183 St. Louis Cardinals 18h ago

Its a joke because hiring Mattingly just signifies thats the idea...mediocrity...in addition to all the aging stars. 

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u/patrickdgd Philadelphia Phillies 18h ago

It doesn’t, but okay.

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u/circaflex New York Mets 16h ago

i dunno man, there are some brain dead coaches out there (see former Mets manager Mendoza). Sometimes players dont gel with the manager and their style either

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u/MuppetusMaximusV2 Philadelphia Phillies 12h ago

The manager doesn’t really affect anything at all.

I love when people say this, as if they're incapable of realizing that "boss at a job" absolutely matters.

A Bad Boss at a workplace is a bad thing, and a Good Boss at a workplace is good thing.

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u/patrickdgd Philadelphia Phillies 12h ago

And Don was obviously a good boss based on their record, right? So why is everyone mad? If he is so important then he must be the reason they had a great record under him.

It either goes both ways or it isn’t true.

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u/MuppetusMaximusV2 Philadelphia Phillies 11h ago

I wasn't discussing whether Don is a good manager or not. I was discussing the "Manager doesn't matter" mindset people have.

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u/patrickdgd Philadelphia Phillies 11h ago

Yes, but what I’m saying is, if the manager DOES matter (which it doesn’t) shouldn’t Phillies fans be HAPPY that Don is back since he had such a good record this year? They’re not. They’re mad.

So either:

  1. Manager does matter, and bringing back Don is good.

  2. Manager doesn’t matter. Hire whoever.

  3. Manager does matter, but bringing back Don is bad for whatever reason even though he had a good record.

It doesn’t make sense.

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u/MuppetusMaximusV2 Philadelphia Phillies 11h ago

I think we're just sick of this team, is all. People are frustrated and are lashing out. Nobody's happy with anything right now.

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u/patrickdgd Philadelphia Phillies 10h ago

Yeah, having a top payroll and making the playoffs five times in a row is so frustrating. I wish I was a Pirates fan instead.