The Philadelphia Phillies will retain Rob Thomson following a second early postseason exit, team sources confirmed to The Athletic on Monday.

Thomson, who took over as manager in June 2022, led the Phillies to a fourth straight postseason in 2025. However, it has been three straight years of postseason pain for the Phillies, including two straight 3-1 series losses in the National League Division Series.

The club will keep Thomson under contract through 2026 to guide the team toward another postseason. Coaching staff changes are still possible. The New York Post first reported Thomson would return.

The Phillies are set up to win in 2026, with stars under contract and top prospects Justin Crawford, Aidan Miller and Andrew Painter poised to debut. Players have praised Thomson for his steadiness amid the season’s ups and downs.

“I’ve been blessed with a lot of good managers in my career,” Trea Turner said after Game 4 of the NLDS. “I’ve probably played for four or five now, and they’ve all been really good. And he’s right there with them. He’s got all the qualities — he keeps it even-keeled all year long. He blends the old-school and the new-school, and he’s willing to adapt and change. I don’t think you can ask for more out of a manager.”

The Phillies chose to extend Thomson’s contract by a year, this time last October, to avoid questions about being a lame-duck manager in 2025. Whether they do that again remains unclear.

Thomson, over four years managing the Phillies, is the third manager in franchise history to win back-to-back division titles and ranks first in all-time managerial winning percentage (.580). That mark puts him third among current managers, behind the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Dave Roberts and the New York Yankees’ Aaron Boone.

Thomson led the Phillies to the World Series in 2022 and the NLCS in 2023. The last three postseasons have ended in heartbreak, yet the most enduring memory of his Phillies tenure might be Thursday’s crushing, extra-innings loss in Game 4 of the NLDS. After Orion Kerkering’s walk-off error sent the Dodgers to the NLCS, Thomson embraced Kerkering on the dugout steps and told him to keep his head up.

Soon after, Thomson was asked about his future managing in Philadelphia.

“Again, it’s out of my control,” Thomson said. “I’m not even thinking about it. I’ve got 60 people in there that are brokenhearted right now. So I’m thinking about that more so than my job right now.”