Todd Zolecki

PHILADELPHIA -- The Phillies' bullpen needs to build a better bridge from the starting rotation to closer Jhoan Duran before Opening Day 2027. They are bringing back one of their most reliable bullpen arms from this past season. Phillies president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski announced on Thursday that they

PHILADELPHIA -- The Phillies are making changes to the 2027 coaching staff, following Wednesday’s announcement that Don Mattingly is back as manager. Sources backed up an NBC Sports Philadelphia report that hitting coach Kevin Long and infield coach Bobby Dickerson will not return. Long and Dickerson have worked together on

PHILADELPHIA -- For now, Trea Turner is the Phillies’ shortstop. How long he plays there is up to him. Phillies president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski spoke on Thursday morning at Citizens Bank Park for the first time since the team’s loss to Atlanta in Game 3 of the NL

PHILADELPHIA -- Dave Dombrowski said he isn’t happy with the way the Phillies played or how the season ended in 2026. “We’re expecting and we want to win a World Series,” he said Thursday morning at Citizens Bank Park. But the Phillies went backward in ’26. They started 9-19, costing

PHILADELPHIA – Two days after the Phillies’ season ended on Oct. 1, Dave Dombrowski and Don Mattingly met in Dombrowski’s office at Citizens Bank Park to discuss the season and the future. They talked for two hours. Mattingly replaced Rob Thomson as the interim manager on April 28. He guided

PHILADELPHIA -- Don Mattingly will be back next season as Phillies manager. The club announced Wednesday morning that Mattingly, who became the team’s interim manager on April 28, signed a two-year contract that runs through the 2028 season. Sources had pointed toward Mattingly’s return since early last week, when former

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PHILADELPHIA -- The Phillies and Dodgers are the only two teams in baseball to have made the postseason each of the past five years. The Phillies have been to the World Series once in that time. They lost in 2022. The Dodgers have won each of the last two World