The Phillies introduced at this time that vice chairman and basic supervisor Sam Fuld is pursuing his MBA on the College of Pennsylvania’s Wharton College. He’s slated to graduate in Could of 2026, at which level he’ll take the title of president of enterprise operations. Assistant basic supervisor Preston Mattingly has been promoted to take the position of vice chairman and basic supervisor.
Fuld, 42, performed within the majors from 2007 to 2015. On condition that he went to school at Stanford and majored in economics, he was seen by many within the sport as a future entrance workplace member. He acquired employed by the Phillies in 2017 with the title of main league participant data coordinator. His identify was then related to varied managerial openings over time however he caught with the Phils and was promoted to GM going into 2021. Dave Dombrowski had simply been employed because the membership’s president of baseball operations and Fuld could be second on the baseball decision-making pyramid.
The 2 sides have seemingly been proud of the connection. In December of 2022, Fuld and the Phils signed an extension operating by means of December 2025. In October of 2023, the Purple Sox had some curiosity in Fuld exchange chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom, although Fuld declined to be interviewed for the opening.
Since Dombrowski is 68 years previous, many thought-about Fuld a type of protege or a president-in-waiting, however now it appears he’s planning a shift. His focus might be away from the membership for the following couple of years and he’ll return to direct his consideration to the enterprise facet, somewhat than the baseball facet.
Mattingly, 37, will now take over as Dombrowski’s second-in-command. The son of Don Mattingly, Preston performed within the minors for some time however by no means acquired greater than Excessive-A. He pivoted to non-playing roles, working with the Padres within the scouting division. Within the fall of 2021, he was plucked away by the Phils, who employed him as director of participant growth.
He has clearly impressed the Phils, as he acquired promoted to assistant basic supervisor simply two years later, in November of 2023. After a yr with that title, he has gotten bumped up once more. He’s nonetheless second on the membership’s entrance workplace hierarchy, nevertheless it’s a formidable rise in a short while and it’s potential that he may finally exchange Dombrowski, relying on how issues go. For now, on condition that there’s greater than 30 years’ distinction in age between the 2, Mattingly will presumably be absorbing every part he can in regards to the position from Dombrowski as he takes on a bigger piece of the membership’s entrance workplace make-up.
