PHILADELPHIA — The Fighting Phillies are a plucky group of wild-card upstarts who have shocked the baseball world by playing into November.
Then again, with Dave Dombrowski in charge, is it really so surprising that Philadelphia is in the World Series?
For the last quarter-century, when Dombrowski was at the helm of a baseball team’s front office, it meant a World Series berth during his tenure. The Marlins found that out in 1997, the Tigers in 2006 and 2012. It came to fruition for the Red Sox in 2018, and this year for the Phillies, who hired Dombrowski to be their president of baseball operations in December 2020.