The Diamondbacks have signed manager Torey Lovullo to a contract extension that will keep him at the helm in Arizona through the 2026 season, sources revealed to reporters (including Steve Gilbert of MLB.com). Considering the team’s success in 2023 – capped off with a National League pennant – it’s no surprise that the Diamondbacks’ front office wants the skipper to stick around for the foreseeable future. Lovullo has been the D-backs manager since 2017.
Funnily enough, this is the second extension Lovullo has signed this year alone. As the 2023 campaign began, his contract was set to expire at the end of the season. However, in early June, when the D-backs boasted the best record in the National League, the skipper signed a one-year extension; evidently, the front office didn’t want a lame duck manager leading the team on a playoff run.
Earlier in the offseason, the Diamondbacks signed general manager Mike Hazen to an extension that runs through the 2028 campaign, with a club option for 2029. They also gave new contracts to executives Amiel Sawdaye and Mike Fitzgerald. Now, with Lovullo under contract for the next three seasons, the team has extended all of the top baseball decision-makers who helped the team win their first NL pennant in over twenty years.
good for him and good for the dbacks.
they were pretty awful in 22 and they turned it around quickly.
lot of players on that team that are easy to root for.
Good chance they don’t even make it in ’24. Negative run differential
Man, idk how some teams let this man get by them. In my opinion, and as highly as everyone spoke of him, even when not prompted to, I definitely figured he’d be a great manager from Day 1.
I’m glad everything has worked out for him, he deserves it. Good man.
And to think that the Red Sox had him briefly as a manager and then let him walk, and now we’re stuck with that idiot Cora!
I’m kinda curious if in 2021 or 2018 you were singing the same tune.
He might not have been? But I was protesting the trades of Arozarena and Garcia rather quickly after they happened
I never liked Cora and 2018 and 2021 doesn’t change that. Yes, I am happy that they won in 2018, but I don’t think that Cora particularly managed that World Series well. I was a Torey Lovullo fan when he managed the Sox while John Farrell was out, and I’m happy for the D’Backs. They’ve got a good man at the helm. But as I stated, I don’t like Cora…never have, never will.
Some of us most definitely were banging the drum to keep him, despite what happened to the team in 2021. No one really had a problem with the team’s 2018 season. That team over-performed in finishing above .500.
I respect your view on him but I like Cora simply because in those two seasons he pushed the right buttons and had a good feel for the game in my opinion. Your comment is quite valid though and I like how you didn’t just mindlessly bash him like most people who call themselves fans do.
I appreciate that. It’s funny because on every team there’s the manager that is either loved or hated. I loved Francona, hated Bobby Valentine, was lukewarm on Farrell and Roenicke, loved Lovullo, and absolutely can’t stand Cora. I just think that Cora has no clue on how to manage a pitching staff. But in his defense and to be fair, it’s not like he ever had a dependable pitching staff to work with. But I still feel that he is clueless when it comes to managing pitchers.
That’s not what I wanted to know. It’s easy enough to look back and say what you’ve always wanted when a manager has a good season. It’s another thing to say you wish you kept a manager when his team has over 100 losses.
No one liked Valentine. The only reason he was hired was because it looked like every other choice was worse.
I honestly think Valentine was hired to just shake things up after that terrible end to 2011.
In all honesty, though, you don’t have 2013 if you didn’t have Valentine in 2012.
Cora got us 2018 and pretty far into 2021. He’s an idiot for cheating but aside from that he’s gotten us far.
He’s about to enter his 8th season as a manager. Not like he waited forever
Well done and deserved!
as a diehard fan I fought him so many times if not for Moreno he be fired. When Kelly cameback we lost 15 in a row. However He deserves it cause of the heart he brings.
Are the top 50 predictions still coming today? My hope is that you’re making some last minute adjustments in light of the Cubs hiring Counsell and showing that they’re really going for it this year.
Torey squeezed about as many wins as humanly possible out of the 2023 roster. They barely got into the playoffs, but got rolling at the right time. It’s pretty clear all the players on the team LOVE playing for him. Once the roster got better players he was much more aggressive in leveraging the talents of his players to win in critical moments. The D-backs have a chance to build sustained success really for the first time since the 1999-2002 run.
Gabriel Moreno will be next on the priority list for the organization to extend. The Gold Glove certainly will increase the price to get it done, but for a catcher of his talents it’s worth it.
Grats Torey!
Well deserved.
He’s good friends with Mike Hazen I’m sure, both coming from the Red Sox at around the same time
Hi Leo – Where are the $numbers in Lovullo’s contract? Media throughout sports lacking when it comes to this department.
Where are the $numbers in Lovullo’s contract? Sports media lacking in this department.