The Philadelphia Phillies will retain Rob Thomson following a second early postseason exit, team sources confirmed to The Athletic on Monday.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s ups and downs.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been blessed with a lot of good managers in my career,\u201d Trea Turner said after Game 4 of the NLDS. \u201cI\u2019ve probably played for four or five now, and they\u2019ve all been really good. And he\u2019s right there with them. He\u2019s got all the qualities \u2014 he keeps it even-keeled all year long. He blends the old-school and the new-school, and he\u2019s willing to adapt and change. I don\u2019t think you can ask for more out of a manager.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Phillies chose to extend Thomson\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
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\u2019 Dave Roberts and the New York Yankees\u2019 Aaron Boone.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s crushing, extra-innings loss in Game 4 of the NLDS. After Orion Kerkering\u2019s walk-off error sent the Dodgers to the NLCS, Thomson embraced Kerkering on the dugout steps and told him to keep his head up.<\/p>\n
Soon after, Thomson was asked about his future managing in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
\u201cAgain, it\u2019s out of my control,\u201d Thomson said. \u201cI\u2019m not even thinking about it. I\u2019ve got 60 people in there that are brokenhearted right now. So I\u2019m thinking about that more so than my job right now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Phillies will retain Rob Thomson following a second early postseason exit, team sources confirmed to The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,480,99],"class_list":["post-222117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}