Phillies Extended Manager Rob Thomson Through 2027 Season
The Philadelphia Inquirer
The deals keep coming for the Phillies, and this time it’s a coaching move.
The Philadelphia Phillies have announced that they have agreed to extend Phillies manager Rob Thomson‘s contract through the 2027 season. Thomson had only one year remaining on his current deal.
Thomson was promoted to the Phillies’ interim manager back in 2022, when former manager Joe Girardi was fired midway through the 2022 season. The Phillies sat seven games under .500 when Thomson was named the interim manager, and he was able to turn that Phillies season around and lead them to the playoffs that year for the first time since 2011.
That momentum continued into the postseason as the Phillies went all the way to the World Series for the first time since 2009, before losing to the Houston Astros in six games. Following that run, Thomson was promoted from interim to full-time manager and hasn’t looked back.
The following season, the Phillies made it back to the postseason, reaching the NLCS for the second year in a row, and most recently led the Phillies for back-to-back National League East Division titles, being only the third manager in Phillies history to accomplish that feat.
Thomson is only the fourth manager in MLB history to reach the postseason in each of the first four full seasons to begin a managerial career, joining Dave Roberts, Aaron Boone, and Mike Matheny. Since his first game as the Phillies manager back in 2022, Thomson has recorded 346 wins and a .580 winning percentage, the second-best in the MLB since that point.
Whether you like to blame him or not, the Phillies have turned into winners under Thomson’s leadership. They haven’t been able to accomplish the end goal of winning a World Series, but the Phillies have the manager who can lead them to their third championship.
Matt Brown
Matt has been a Philadelphia sports fan all his life and spent four years at Penn State University majoring in Broadcast Journalism and minoring in Sports Studies. He previously covered Penn State’s field hockey, men’s and women’s basketball, and baseball teams while writing for a Penn State blog called Onward State. He has now covered the Phillies, Eagles, and Sixers for Philly Sports Reports since October 2024 and wants to pursue a career in Sports Journalism.
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