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/T_Raycroft Montreal Expos 19h ago

So the Phillies basically had no plan other than Alex Cora, and then when Cora said "Uh no thanks I'm just not going to manage this year" they just decided that the GM's dad would be good enough.

Gotta wonder how Rob Thomson feels about all of this. Fired because his team had 1 month of bad BABIP luck that proceeded to normalize over the rest of the season after he was fired, was constantly disrespected by a shit player in Castellanos, Dombrowski wanted to get back in bed with his old friend after he was fired 3 days before Thomson, and then the Phillies proceeded to settle for the GM's oldhead media darling dad. Thomson couldn't buy respect in Philly if it was free.

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u/Emperor-Octavian Philadelphia Phillies 18h ago

I think you’re underselling the firing. It wasn’t that they normalized over the season, they immediately started winning.

Firing Rob was the right move. The boost to the team was from the firing itself, nothing that Don did. Keeping Don is a mistake