Dave Dombrowski Talks Phillies Future Built Around What’s Worked

Phillies would love to have veterans Kyle Schwarber, J.T. Realmuto back, but at right price

PHLADELPHIA — The Phillies offseason plan in 2024, stated or not, was to run it back for 2025. The plan in 2025 is to resist so easy a categorization, if only because two NLDS eliminations in as many years is an unseemly thing to aspire to once again. But change will come to the Phillies this offseason by the simple attrition of expiring contracts. At the end-of-season media availability for President of Baseball Operations Dave Dombrowski and m…

Dave Dombrowski Talks Phillies Future Built Around What’s Worked

The Philadelphia Phillies fell short of their World Series championship goal. But as Dave Dombrowski detailed plans to stay the course, history supports his ideas.

Phillies executive says it’s ‘probably impractical’ for team to retain all four key impending free agents

Kyle Schwarber will be a free agent this winter. (Madeline Ressler/Phillies Nation) PHILADELPHIA — Dave Dombrowski will have some tough decisions to make this winter. The Phillies fell in the National League Division Series once again, so the offseason started earlier for their president of baseball operations than he would’ve liked. Dombrowski announced Thursday during Philadelphia’s end-of-season news conference at Citizens Bank Park that mana…

Dombrowski on Phillies' top free agents, other offseason priorities

PHILADELPHIA -- Dave Dombrowski spoke for nearly an hour on Thursday at Citizens Bank Park. A large chunk of his time focused on the team’s regular-season successes vs. its postseason failures over the past four years. In short, the Phillies still believe they are good enough to win a World

Ranger Suarez is the Phillies' Most Complicated Free Agent

Far sooner than was hoped to be the case, the Philadelphia Phillies have turned a page to the offseason. Following four consecutive playoff appearances and back-to-back years in which they have failed to make it past the NLDS, there are some difficult decisions to make. Most pressing will be what to do with the team’s impending free agents. Kyle Schwarber headlines this list with J.T. Realmuto, Max Kepler, Jordan Romano, David Robertson, Walker …