PHILADELPHIA — Preston Mattingly, a son of former star first baseman and supervisor Don Mattingly, was promoted to normal supervisor of the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday beneath president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski.
Sam Fuld, the GM since December 2020, will share the GM duties with Mattingly. However Fuld is finding out for his Grasp of Enterprise Administration diploma on the College of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Faculty and can develop into the workforce’s president of enterprise operations when he receives his diploma in Might 2026.
“Sam and Preston are two of the perfect younger individuals within the recreation,” Dombrowski stated. “They’re excellent in each respect. We’ve relationship between all of us and actually, you type of look in the direction of the long run and say, ‘Properly, how will this all work out?'”
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Dombrowski, 68, is beneath contract with the Phillies by means of 2027, which suggests he’ll get to have Mattingly study the commerce beneath his tutelage for 3 seasons, after which if Dombrowski decides to retire, the Phillies would have his inheritor obvious already in place.
“I believe he has the power to be the final supervisor and the pinnacle of baseball operations for years to come back,” Dombrowski stated.
Mattingly, 37, performed within the minor leagues from 2006-11, after which went to Lamar College, the place he captained the basketball workforce and obtained a bachelor’s diploma in 2016. He labored for the San Diego Padres from 2017-21, rising to coordinator of main league advance scouting and recreation planning.
He joined the Phillies as director of participant growth in September 2021 and was promoted to assistant normal supervisor of participant growth final November.
“I am very excited concerning the position,” Mattingly stated. “Truthfully, I simply love baseball. It means a lot to me. It has been my life since I used to be born. … I used to be very excited to get to work with the individuals we’ve within the group. They problem you each single day and all of us share the identical imaginative and prescient of serving to the Philadelphia Phillies obtain their final objective, which is to win the World Collection.”
Fuld will oversee enterprise operations departments after his commencement. The present president of enterprise operations, Dave Buck, is retiring in December. Fuld stated that a number of individuals — together with himself — will tackle the obligations of the position for the 18 months till his commencement.
“I’ve all the time been within the enterprise facet of baseball,” Fuld stated. “It is all the time been compelling to me. This got here out of a dialog I had with Dave and [managing partner John Middleton] within the spring and we talked concerning the brief time period, the midterm and the long run implications of this chance. It wasn’t one thing I had given a ton of thought to on the time, however after I digested it and wrapped my head round it, it felt like a extremely compelling alternative each professionally and personally.”
The Phillies additionally introduced two different promotions within the baseball operations division. Luke Murton was promoted to director of participant growth and Edwar Gonzalez to director of hitting growth.
Don Mattingly was a six-time All-Star for the New York Yankees from 1982-95, then managed the Los Angeles Dodgers from 2011-15 and the Miami Marlins from 2016-22.
