The Phillies are so committed to running back this team that they’ve fired their manager at midseason again. That worked in 2022. Now they just need a repeat of everything else that went right four years ago, too.
Rob Thomson, who last was the beneficiary of that change, became on Tuesday the victim of it. Bench coach Don Mattingly—the All-Star player and accomplished two-time former manager who also happens to be the father of Philadelphia general manager Preston Mattingly—will take over. The elder Mattingly inherits a $282 million roster with a 9–19 record and scant reason for hope.
