Phillies' Don Mattingly Decides If He Wants Extended Manager Run

Don Mattingly might not be one-and-done as the Philadelphia Phillies manager. The former Los Angeles Dodgers and Miami Marlins skipper was asked Wednesday if he would be interested in losing the "interim" tag from his title and returning next season as Phillies manager.

"Oh I would do it. I kind of committed myself to two years with the Phillies when I came over," Mattingly said, per NBC Sports Philadelphia. "So, you know, whatever Dave (Dombrowski) wants to do in that regard. But yeah, I think I would like to do it."

The Phillies fired manager Rob Thomson on April 28 following a disappointing 9-19 start to the season and replaced him with Mattingly, who was in his first season as Philadelphia's bench coach. Since then, the team is 43-23. As a result, the Phillies are in second place in the National League East, just three games behind the first-place Atlanta Braves. Philadelphia is just 0.5 games behind the Chicago Cubs for first place in the NL Wild Card standings.

FanGraphs gives the Phillies an 85.4% chance of making the playoffs this fall and 6.6% chance of winning the World Series. Those odds were just 32.8% and 1.9% when the Phillies fired Thomson.

This is Mattingly's third time calling the shots in the dugout. He managed the Dodgers from 2011 to 2015 and won three NL West division titles, but never got Los Angeles over the World Series hump.

He managed the Marlins from 2016 to 2022 and led the club on a surprising playoff run in 2020. That was Miami's first postseason appearance since winning the 2003 World Series.

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