The Philadelphia Phillies have fired manager Joe Girardi and coaching assistant Bobby Meacham. Team insider Jim Salisbury reported that he was hearing a move could be made on Friday, shortly before the Phillies announced the decisions.
Girardi was in his third season with Philadelphia and finished with a 132-141 mark with the group, good for a .484 winning percentage. Entering Friday, the Phillies are 22-29, tied with the 21-28 Miami Marlins for third place in the NL East and trailing the first-place New York Mets by 12 games.
After going 11-11 in April, Girardi’s bunch went 10-18 in May before winning their first game of June on Wednesday. Philadelphia has already played New York 12 times this season and has gone 3-9, including falling in a sweep last weekend.
A former big-league catcher, Girardi won NL Manager of the Year honors in his first and only year at the helm of the then-Florida Marlins in 2006, before his tenure as the New York Yankees manager from 2008 to 2017. Girardi guided the Yankees to 10 consecutive winning seasons, including the team’s most recent World Series title in 2009.
He has a career managerial record of 1,120-935 (.545 winning percentage) and a 28-24 mark in the postseason.
