Dave Dombrowski has been the Phillies’ president of baseball operations since December 2020, and his current contract with the team is up after the 2027 campaign. Though Dombrowski will be 71 years old at the end of that deal, he intends to stay in his position for some time to come.
“I love it here. I want to just keep going….Knock on wood, I’m healthy. I still have energy for it,” Dombrowski told USA Today’s Bob Nightengale. “I have a great ownership with John [Middleton]. A great front office. I love the city of Philadelphia. So, basically, I’ll just take it as it goes.”
Dombrowski noted that “this will be my last full-time job” in baseball, though it remains to be seen when exactly the longtime executive will call it a career. Though Dombrowski didn’t share details about any contract talks, Nightengale regards another extension as a sure thing, which is understandable given how the Phillies have performed during Dombrowski’s tenure.
Philadelphia has become such a regular contender that is easy to forget that team had posted nine straight non-winning seasons before Dombrowski’s hiring. An 82-80 record in 2021 broke that streak, and the Phils have increased their win total over each of Dombrowski’s five seasons, with postseason appearances coming in each of the last four years. A World Series appearance in 2022 remains the Phillies’ best playoff finish in this era, as the club lost the 2023 NLCS and then went out in the NLDS in each of the last two years after winning the NL East.
Today’s loss to the Braves dropped the Phillies five games back in the NL East race, so another division title probably isn’t in the cards. Still, Philadelphia is 80-63 and battling the Cubs for the top NL wild card slot, with a 4.5-game cushion over the sixth-seeded Diamondbacks.
Several of the Phillies’ key pieces were already in place when Dombrowski took over the club, but he has added many more notable players (i.e. Kyle Schwarber, Jesus Luzardo, Trea Turner, Luis Arraez) through the type of high-profile signings and trades that have been the hallmark of Dombrowski’s long career. Of similar import, Dombrowski has also retained many of those acquisitions through extensions, or to new deals in free agency, like how the Phillies brought back Schwarber, J.T. Realmuto, and Aaron Nola after letting them test the open market. While not every move has worked out, the hits have outnumbered the misses for Dombrowski, and it obviously helps that he has been given plenty of payroll flexibility from Middleton.
Dombrowski has now been running a big league front office (either as GM or PBO) for parts of 38 seasons, beginning in July 1988 when he was hired as the Expos’ general manager at age 31. His remarkable career includes World Series championships with the 1997 Marlins and 2018 Red Sox, plus World Series appearances with the 2022 Phillies and the 2006 and 2012 Tigers. He is already the only lead executive to win pennants with four different franchises, and if the Phillies can win it all, Dombrowski would become the first GM/PBO to win championships with three different teams.
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