The National League champion Arizona Diamondbacks have signed manager Torey Lovullo to a freelance extension through the 2026 season, reports the Arizona Republic. The crew has no longer but showed the extension. Lovullo was once already beneath contract for 2024, so the new extension provides two years to his deal.
“It’s great to have the long-term contracts, right? Everybody wants that,” Lovullo told the Arizona Republic in June. “Do I deserve that? I don’t know. I don’t know. I feel like I’ve got to prove myself every single day to people. That’s how I was raised. You honor what they give you and then at the end of the day, if they want you back, then you honor that too.”
Lovullo, 58, joined the D-backs in Nov. 2016 and they’re his simplest full-time MLB managerial activity. Arizona has long past 495-537 (.480) right through Lovullo’s seven seasons, regardless that a number of of the ones seasons have been rebuilding years. The D-backs reached the postseason as a wild-card crew in 2017 and once more in 2023, after they made a Cinderella run to the World Series.
The D-backs misplaced 110 video games as not too long ago as 2021. Thanks to Lovullo’s management, in addition to an infusion of younger ability like Corbin Carroll and Gabriel Moreno, Arizona received 84 video games in 2023 and certified for the postseason. They disenchanted the Milwaukee Brewers, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Philadelphia Phillies sooner than falling to the Texas Rangers within the Fall Classic.
Prior to becoming a member of the D-backs, Lovullo labored as Toronto Blue Jays first base trainer (2011-12) and Boston Red Sox bench trainer (2013-16). He served as Boston’s meantime manager for the overall seven weeks of the 2015 season, when manager John Farrell stepped clear of the crew to obtain remedy for lymphoma.
With Craig Counsell leaving the Brewers for the Chicago Cubs, Lovullo is the 3rd longest-tenured manager within the National League. Only Dave Roberts (Los Angeles Dodgers) and Brian Snitker (Atlanta Braves) had been on the helm longer, and Snitker was once employed only some months prior to Lovullo.