With the regular season now over for the Phillies, the first big step of the offseason is to hire the manager for 2018 and beyond. They are left without anyone at the helm with Pete Mackanin being fired a few days before the season ended.
As soon as Mackanin was canned, one of the first names to pop into the discussion for the next manager was Dusty Wathan. Wathan served as Triple-A Lehigh Valley’s manager this season and has been managing Philadelphia’s minor-league teams for years now. At the end of the last few seasons, Wathan has served as an extra coach with the major-league team, so he is definitely on the radar.