The Nationwide League champion Arizona Diamondbacks have signed supervisor Torey Lovullo to a contract extension by means of the 2026 season, stories the Arizona Republic. The group has not but confirmed the extension. Lovullo was already beneath contract for 2024, so the brand new extension provides two years to his deal.
“It is nice to have the long-term contracts, proper? All people needs that,” Lovullo informed the Arizona Republic in June. “Do I deserve that? I do not know. I do not know. I really feel like I’ve bought to show myself each single day to folks. That is how I used to be raised. You honor what they provide you after which on the finish of the day, if they need you again, then you definitely honor that too.”
Lovullo, 58, joined the D-backs in Nov. 2016 and they’re his solely full-time MLB managerial job. Arizona has gone 495-537 (.480) throughout Lovullo’s seven seasons, although a number of of these seasons have been rebuilding years. The D-backs reached the postseason as a wild-card group in 2017 and once more in 2023, once they made a Cinderella run to the World Sequence.
The D-backs misplaced 110 video games as just lately as 2021. Because of Lovullo’s management, in addition to an infusion of younger expertise like Corbin Carroll and Gabriel Moreno, Arizona gained 84 video games in 2023 and certified for the postseason. They upset the Milwaukee Brewers, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Philadelphia Phillies earlier than falling to the Texas Rangers within the Fall Traditional.
Previous to becoming a member of the D-backs, Lovullo labored as Toronto Blue Jays first base coach (2011-12) and Boston Purple Sox bench coach (2013-16). He served as Boston’s interim supervisor for the ultimate seven weeks of the 2015 season, when supervisor John Farrell stepped away from the group to obtain therapy for lymphoma.
With Craig Counsell leaving the Brewers for the Chicago Cubs, Lovullo is the third longest-tenured supervisor within the Nationwide League. Solely Dave Roberts (Los Angeles Dodgers) and Brian Snitker (Atlanta Braves) have been on the helm longer, and Snitker was employed only some months previous to Lovullo.
