The Philadelphia Phillies have some work to do with their roster this offseason. After being eliminated by the Atlanta Braves in three games in the Wild Card Round, the team has a few weaknesses that need to be addressed.
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With the MLB Postseason continuing on, the Philadelphia Phillies will be working to prepare for what is going to be a key offseason. Coming off another early playoff loss, there is no shortage of areas that the team needs to address.
Yesterday brought a bit of a whirlwind of Phillies managerial news. First, it was reported that Alex Cora, the presumed favorite to land the job after he initially turned down Dave Dombrowski’s overtures in late April, spurned the Phillies again.
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The Philadelphia Phillies have a lot of items on their to-do list heading into the offseason, with their top priority being figuring out who their next manager will be.
As the Philadelphia Phillies prepare for the offseason, the team is going to have a lot of different areas to address. Coming off a disappointing year by their standards, what the Phillies do this offseason is going to be interesting to watch.
The Philadelphia Phillies have a big decision to make on the manager position. Alex Cora was expected to be a top option, but USA Today’s Bob Nightengale said Cora will sit out the 2027 season.
After the Phillies were rebuffed once again by Alex Cora, the club could keep its managerial decision in-house. Matt Gelb and Jayson Stark of The Athletic report that interim manager Don Mattingly could retain the position next season.
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Alex Cora turned down another opportunity to manage the Philadelphia Phillies and plans to take the 2027 season off, USA Today reported Wednesday. The report's source was a "high-ranking Phillies executive with direct knowledge" of the talks between Cora and Phillies president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski.
Two days ago, we asked who your top free agent target was. Today, it’s time for the reverse. Very few free agent possibilities meet with unanimous agreement; there’s always reason to believe that a player might not pan out, or that they might not be worth the price they’ll command.
Following an earlier end to the postseason than they would have liked, the Philadelphia Phillies will be hoping to improve over the winter. This is a team that has been able to make the playoffs for five straight years, but has come up short of the ultimate goal.
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As the Philadelphia Phillies mull their managerial decision, it appears one of the top speculative targets is off the board.
The Philadelphia Phillies enter another winter knowing their offense cannot stand still. The free-agent class is thin, the better bats will draw crowded bidding, and the outfield is the clearest hole after a season in which the club tried to patch it and came away with little to show.
The Philadelphia Phillies suffered another early playoff exit this postseason, dropping a wild card series against the Atlanta Braves. They battled hard all year long, but they have continued to falter in October.
The Philadelphia Phillies and Atlanta Braves met in the postseason for the third time in five years. In a tense best-of-three series, the Phillies forced Atlanta to a win-or-go-home Game 3.
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The Philadelphia Phillies suffered another heartbreaking exit with a Game 3 loss to the Atlanta Braves, falling short of their ultimate goal, and the old core has continued to regress in their quest to win a World Series title.
The Philadelphia Phillies were recently eliminated from the Major League Baseball Playoffs by the Atlanta Braves. Heading into the 2027 season, Philadelphia is getting some advice from MLB insider Ken Rosenthal.
Mattingly, 65, first joined the Phillies organization as a bench coach last offseason and then became the the team’s interim manager after Rob Thomson was fired in late April. He did well to right the ship and went 79-55 (.590) this season to help Philadelphia clinch a playoff berth.
The end of an MLB season is brutal, and big postseason losses almost always result in overreactions. But of all the Wild Card Series exits, the Philadelphia Phillies‘ postmortem sure seems to signal the grimmest outlook.
It was another lost season for Bryce Harper and the Philadelphia Phillies, who may be facing a pivotal offseason following an early exit from the 2026 MLB playoffs.
There is mourning in the City of Brotherly Love as the Philadelphia Phillies have once again bowed out of World Series contention — marking it the fifth consecutive year in which they’ve fallen short in October.
Kyle Schwarber had praise for Don Mattingly after the Philadelphia Phillies’ season ended Thursday night. Following a 6-2 loss to the Atlanta Braves in the deciding game of the NL Wild Card Series, Schwarber pointed to the interim manager’s steady approach through a difficult year.
Prior to Thursday night, the Atlanta Braves had never defeated the Philadelphia Phillies in a postseason series.
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