{"id":87728,"date":"2024-10-15T13:48:40","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T17:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=87728"},"modified":"2024-10-15T13:48:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T17:48:40","slug":"rob-thomson-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/10\/15\/rob-thomson-contract-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies Lock Up Skipper Through 2026 Season, Retain Full Coaching Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After being eliminated by the New York Mets in the National League Division Series, the Philadelphia Phillies have extended manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/thomsro99.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-10-15_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rob Thomson<\/a>&#8216;s contract through the 2026 season. On Tuesday, President of Baseball Operations Dave Dombrowski made the announcement and also confirmed that the entire coaching staff will return for the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Year by year is good with me,&#8221; the Sarnia, Ont. native said Tuesday. &#8220;I&#8217;ve mentioned many times this is the only place I want to be. This will be my last stop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thomson, 61, took over as Phillies manager in June 2022 after <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2022\/06\/06\/girardi-fired-by-phillies\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">the club fired<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/girarjo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-10-15_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Girardi<\/a>. Thomson led the team to the NL pennant that year and the NLCS in 2023.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Rob Thomson is here to stay. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lKBUgp3LUk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/lKBUgp3LUk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBC Sports Philadelphia (@NBCSPhilly) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCSPhilly\/status\/1846206978311299452?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Phillies Extend Rob Thomson Through 2026 Season<\/h2>\n<p>The Phillies made a remarkable turnaround under Thomson, ending their ten-season postseason drought with a Wild Card berth and reaching the World Series before losing to the Houston Astros. Philadelphia removed the interim tag from Thomson&#8217;s title during their postseason run and signed him to a two-year extension. The Phillies reached the postseason again as a Wild Card team in 2023, losing in the NLCS to the Arizona Diamondbacks in seven games. This season, Thomson led the Phillies to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/09\/23\/phillies-win-nl-east-title-first-time-since-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">NL East division title<\/a>, the franchise&#8217;s first division title since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Dombrowski said it was important for the team not to enter the 2026 season with a lame-duck manager.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s done a good job for us, been a very successful manager,&#8221; Dombrowski said. &#8220;There&#8217;s been very few clubs in baseball that have made the postseason three years in a row. He has done that. We&#8217;ve been a very good club under his guidance. It&#8217;s also one where I think stability in the manager&#8217;s spot, I don&#8217;t think going into the manager&#8217;s last year is ever a good situation to be in, if you can prevent that from happening. He deserves the extension in that regard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thomson had no managerial experience when taking over for Girardi. Thomson&#8217;s extensive MLB experience includes a decade on the Yankees&#8217; coaching staff, serving as bench coach (2008, 2015-17) and third base coach (2009-14). He had been with the Phillies since 2018 when he was hired as bench coach under former manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kaplega01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-10-15_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gabe Kapler<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"html-div xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"x1e56ztr\">\n<div class=\"html-div xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"x1e56ztr\">\n<div class=\"html-div xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"x1e56ztr\"><span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x1fj9vlw x13faqbe x1vvkbs xt0psk2 xt4736n x1havqas x1f0sm9e x12qp5cl xzsf02u x1yc453h\">Thomson holds the Phillies&#8217; best managerial record with a .575 winning percentage, going 250-155 in the regular season and 20-14 in the postseason.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Main Photo: \u00a9 Rafael Suanes-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being eliminated by the New York Mets in the National League Division Series, the Philadelphia Phillies have extended manager Rob Thomson&#8216;s contract through the 2026 season. On Tuesday, President of Baseball Operations Dave Dombrowski made the announcement and also confirmed that the entire coaching staff will return for the 2025 season. &#8220;Year by year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3686,"featured_media":87731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,1071,35],"tags":[326,475,1743,246,316,164,41,6029],"class_list":["post-87728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phillies","category-mlb","category-news","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-dave-dombrowski","tag-gabe-kapler","tag-houston-astros","tag-joe-girardi","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-rob-thomson"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}