{"id":877784,"date":"2026-10-10T19:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T19:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/877784\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T19:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T19:54:10","slug":"sam-fuld-declines-offer-to-become-as-president-of-baseball-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/877784\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Fuld Declines Offer To Become A’s President Of Baseball Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phillies president of baseball operations Sam Fuld has declined the Athletics\u2019 offer to become the team\u2019s new president of baseball operations, ESPN\u2019s Jeff Passan<\/a> reports.\u00a0 Fuld\u2019s name surfaced in connection to the A\u2019s job earlier this week<\/a>, but Fuld has now taken himself out of the running and will stay in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

Nine names have been linked to the A\u2019s job, though Passan (in another post<\/a>) echoes an earlier report from The Athletic\u2019s Patrick Mooney and Ken Rosenthal<\/a> stating that Cardinals assistant general manager Rob Cerfolio is expected to stay in St. Louis rather than pursue the top job in Sacramento.\u00a0 Passan describes both Cerfolio and Red Sox assistant GM Taylor Smith as finalists in the search, and it is unclear how many other names were on the Athletics\u2019 short list besides Fuld.<\/p>\n

Fuld spent the last of his eight Major League seasons with the Athletics in 2015, and after retiring from playing in 2017, he joined the Phillies organization in November 2017.\u00a0 Beginning as a player information coordinator, Fuld served in that role until he was promoted to the role of general manager in December 2020.\u00a0 This put Fuld behind only PBO Dave Dombrowski on the Phils\u2019 decision-making depth chart, though an interesting twist occurred in 2024 when Fuld took a leave of absence to pursue an MBA at Wharton.\u00a0 Fuld returned as Philadelphia\u2019s president of business operations this year after attaining his degree, and Preston Mattingly has been the GM under Dombrowski over the last two years.<\/p>\n

Dombrowski is expected<\/a> to receive another contract extension once his current deal is up after the 2027 campaign.\u00a0 Since Dombrowski is 70 years old, there has been speculation that either Fuld or Mattingly is being groomed as Dombrowski\u2019s successor.\u00a0 Given Fuld\u2019s pivot to business rather than baseball operations, the Phillies\u2019 plan might well be to have both Fuld and Mattingly stay on to each run one side of the organization.<\/p>\n

This longer-term path could be one of the reasons Fuld turned down the A\u2019s, beyond any number of possible other considerations.\u00a0 It could be that Fuld didn\u2019t want to uproot his family to move across the country, or perhaps he wasn\u2019t keen on the inherent uncertainty facing the Athletics as they prepare to move to Las Vegas, or maybe it was something as mundane as Fuld and the A\u2019s not seeing eye-to-eye on contract terms.<\/p>\n

Whatever the situation, the Athletics find themselves still looking.\u00a0 The A\u2019s were reportedly planning to have the PBO position filled within a week\u2019s time, but that timeline may be adjusted now that Fuld (presumably the top choice) has turned down the offer.\u00a0 The remaining list of known candidates beyond Smith and Cerfolio includes former Nationals president of baseball operations Mike Rizzo, former Astros general manager James Click, A\u2019s assistant GM Billy Owens, Cubs assistant GM Jared Banner, Brewers assistant GM Matt Kleine, and Red Sox assistant GM Mike Groopman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phillies president of baseball operations Sam Fuld has declined the Athletics\u2019 offer to become the team\u2019s new president…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[369200,99],"class_list":["post-877784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-sam-fuld","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877784","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=877784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}