Phillies fans like Joe Girardi hire; Mets faithful seem upset

We asked Phillies fans which players they’d like back next season and they made a few things clear: They’re fed up with Trea Turner, the Daycare is done, and some veterans are falling out of favor.

The outfield is in an all-too-familiar spot for the Phillies with the need for a reliable, everyday corner outfielder.

The quality of NFL games is down ... might that be because of too many international games and off-schedule contests like "Thursday Night Football"?

Dealin' Dave, President for Life, denied offering a job to Alex Cora, said Trea Turner must audition at shortstop, and said the farm system is A-OK. Seriously: I hope John Middleton never fires him.

The Phillies’ top prospect credited Tom Brady’s training center for helping to treat “chronic stiffness” that cost him almost all of the 2026 season. Can he be their Kevin McGonigle next season?

They weren’t good by traditional standards, but they were a reflection of the working-class city in which they played. And on Oct. 13, 1993, they beat the Atlanta Braves for the National League title.

Dombrowski had a lot of answers for a disappointing Phillies season during his year-end news conference on Thursday. He didn’t offer many solutions.

"Big Phan" — which premiers Saturday at the Philadelphia Film Festival — took two years to finish as the Kepner brothers tapped into their childhood and told a story that only they could.

What if Turner doesn't improve? “We’ll have fallback opportunities,” Dave Dombrowski said, “and some of it may come back to young guys we have.”

The new Phillies full-time manager didn’t mind that the club was looking at other candidates, including Cora, before they signed him to a two-year contract on Wednesday.

Mendoza will serve as infield coach, filling the role vacated by Bobby Dickerson, and will be the third base coach.

Change will take creativity that goes beyond spending John Middleton’s money, Dombrowski’s most common solution to problems since he got hired in 2020.

After years of prioritizing continuity among players and staff, the changes may be reflective of a shift in organizational philosophies on hitting and defense.

Nick Castellanos might have hit on something when he threw shade last season at former manager Rob Thomson.

Mattingly, who led the Phillies to a 79-55 record as interim manager, is now under contract through the 2028 season, the team announced on Wednesday.

Whatever the marginal difference between Joe Girardi and Rob Thomson and Mattingly and Cora, it is fractional orders of magnitude compared to the impact of a star who emerges from the minor leagues.

A move to second with time to transition to the outfield would benefit Turner and the Phillies, who could then go shopping for a shortstop.

MLB would allow higher-seeded teams in the first two rounds of the postseason to pick their opponents beginning next year.

Another year, another early postseason exit for the Phillies. What should the Phillies do with Alec Bohm, Jose Alvarado and Co.?

The Justice Department has brought no charges in relation to the millions of documents it has released from federal investigations into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump, who has often avoided depositions, accused the publicly funded broadcaster of defamation as well as deceptive and unfair trade practices related to a documentary, “Trump: A Second Chance.”

Krasner said his office had acted appropriately in a controversial post-conviction case, and sought to cast the probe as a politically motivated effort to target an opponent of President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump has urged Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican nominee for Ohio governor, to keep running a controversial ad

The chefs are taking the former Barclay Pharmacy at 18th and Spruce Streets for a restaurant. They are keeping their empire within a 15-minute walk of their house.

States that tend to vote for Democrats have faced a longer wait for aid and seen their requests rejected more often, according to analyses of federal disaster declarations during Trump’s second term.