Daily News | The Phillies’ Rob Thomson is ‘special.’ Just ask Derek Jeter.
clubhouse as his players circled around him. The team was six games below .500 when Thomson stepped in as manager yet here it was in October standing just four wins from the World Series.
Thomson spent 28 years with the Yankees but lived in relative anonymity outside of the Bronx. He was a minor-league manager when Jeter was drafted in 1992, spent three years as the farm director, organized spring training every year, and eventually joined the major-league coaching staff for the final seven years of Jeter’s career.
“Now everyone knows who Rob Thomson is because he’s the manager of the Phillies and they’re in the postseason,” Jeter said. “But at the time we filmed that commercial, I wanted everyone to realize that Thoms is special to me and my career. I played 23 years professionally and knew Thoms for pretty much my entire career. He’s a guy who I always had a great deal of respect for.”
“I think he’s excited, right? He has to be,” Harper said. “But it’s kind of like in ‘Tombstone’ when they call Wyatt Earp an oak. That’s kind of who he is. Nothing takes him one way or the other. It’s just who he is and we all love that. It’s fun to be able to play for a guy like that. He really understands his players and cares about his players.”
“I think the reason why he has such a great relationship with players is that he treats everyone fairly. He doesn’t care if you’ve been in the league one year, 10 years, 15 years, 20 years. He’s going to give you an honest opinion and an opinion even if he thinks you’re doing something wrong. I think players respect that. He doesn’t go out of his way to embarrass you or do it when everyone’s watching. Thoms is the type of guy who will pull you aside and he’ll be honest with you.
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