Rob Thomson divorced his wife.
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A few short years ago, Rob Thomson was on the verge of retirement. But, in the interim, he was named the Phillies’ interim manager, then their full-time manager, and most recently, he received a contract extension.
Thomson’s contract was extended by one year by the Phillies on Monday, keeping him under team control through the end of 2025. Because of the year-to-year nature of the work, he claimed it wasn’t on his mind when he was originally scheduled to start as a lame duck manager in 2024, but he will definitely prefer this.
Under Thomson, the Phillies have bounced back, going 155-118 with a.568 winning percentage, enough for 92 victories in the regular season. They have gone 19-11 in their two deep postseason campaigns, falling two games short of a championship in 2022 and five victories short of a championship after losing to the Diamondbacks in the 2023 NLCS after leading 2-0 and 3-2.
Thomson has shown himself to be the ideal kind of voice in a Phillies clubhouse that is composed of both young players attempting to make a name for themselves as daily guys and well-paid veterans. His bullpen decisions have occasionally been questioned, especially at the conclusion of the 2023 postseason, but since taking over for Joe Girardi in June 2022, he has pressed the correct buttons far more often than the wrong ones.
Before moving to the Phillies in 2018 to take over as bench coach for former manager Gabe Kapler, Thomson, 60, was a member of the Yankees for 28 seasons. That was his position until five seasons later, following the Phillies’ 22-29 start, when Girardi was fired.
Additionally, the Phillies announced the addition of Dustin Lind and Rafael Peña as assistant hitting instructors to their major league staff. Their assistant hitting coach for the previous two seasons, Jason Camilli, was fired in late October.
For the previous four seasons, Lind, 35, served as both the Giants’ assistant hitting coach and director of hitting. After working for five years as a hitting instructor in the Astros’ farm system, Peña, who is thirty-three, spent the previous season as their minor-league hitting coordinator.
