PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Dave Dombrowski wants to win again sooner rather than later. The longtime executive moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in September as a consultant for Music City Baseball but found out this week that expansion won’t be entertained for more than a year at least. So he finalized a deal Friday to become the Philadelphia Phillies’ president of baseball operations, convinced the team is not far from its first World Series title since 2008.
“I consider a retool, not a rebuild for sure,” Dombrowski said. “There’s too many good players on the club.”
He views the Phillies as “sort of a sleeping giant because they’ve got a big market.