The Phillies are bringing back their entire 2024 major league coaching staff, including hitting coach Kevin Long, in 2025.
After three straight years of the bats going cold in the final days of the season, the Phillies are prioritizing continuity.
“To me, it was pretty simple in that regard,” Dave Dombrowski said Tuesday at his end-of-season press conference. “It’s hard for me — anytime you do have a disappointing finish in which we did — it’s hard to put that on their backs in that case. I think we all share collectively in what happened. But putting that on any of their individual backs, I think, wasn’t the right thing to do.