The Phillies are built to win now, but Dave Dombrowski wants to give the franchise the financial framework to win well beyond the current core of stars.
Dave Dombrowski has assembled a team that is expected to contend for the World Series. But he's focused on a more ambitious challenge: Building an organization that can sustain success for more than a handful of years.made the playoffs, a run that cemented his future spot in the Hall of Fame. And those clubs’ yearly payrolls, calculated for the luxury tax, ranked 10th, eighth, eighth, third, fourth, fifth, first, fourth, and sixth in baseball.
“I think people, when they say ‘championship window,’ with maybe this one group of players,” the Phillies’ 67-year-old president of baseball operations said. “That’s significantly different than being in a championship window, period. Maybe you have a down year mixed in somewhere because something happens. But you try to on a yearly basis. That’s the challenge of a good organization.
It also takes double vision — short- and long-term — to keep the whole thing from toppling like a Jenga tower. But Dombrowski also noted that the budget is “not unlimited.” He maintains three years’ worth of projections. Including Wheeler’s new contract, which takes effect next season, the Phillies already have $207.4 million in salary commitments for nine players in 2025.
“That’s what our thought process is, sure,” Dombrowski said. “Because you can’t pay, let’s call it $25 million a year, at every position. It’s just impossible. So, you have to do that type of planning.
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