{"id":822648,"date":"2026-10-06T03:51:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T03:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/822648\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T03:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T03:51:16","slug":"mlb-labor-battle-throws-a-wrench-in-phillies-astros-manager-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/822648\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB labor battle throws a wrench in Phillies, Astros manager search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although Alex Cora is seen as a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/03\/sports\/alex-cora-has-the-inside-track-for-the-phillies-manager-job\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">favorite for the Phillies manager job<\/a> due to his great track record and rapport with Phillies boss Dave Dombrowski, it\u2019s not impossible that Cora could decide to take the year off since he\u2019s still being paid (at $7M-plus per year).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cora, who\u2019s getting married next month, declined this very job over the summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another potential consideration: MLB may be headed for a rough year starting with the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/27\/sports\/mlb-proposes-massive-changes-to-free-agency-roster-rules-in-cba-talks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dec. 1 lockout<\/a>. Managers are disallowed from communicating with players during a lockout.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s still also possible the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/02\/sports\/don-mattingly-will-be-gracefully-dismissed-as-phillies-manager-after-crushing-wild-card-loss-to-braves\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phillies retain Don Mattingly<\/a> for 2027. He did go 79-55.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although Alex Cora is seen as a favorite for the Phillies manager job due to his great track&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2397],"tags":[858,5,9925,54,4,144,25,4216,40,185,428],"class_list":["post-822648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia-phillies","tag-alex-cora","tag-baseball","tag-don-mattingly","tag-houston-astros","tag-mlb","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-philadelphiaphillies","tag-phillies","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117391935636578192","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}