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Pete Mackanin Got a New Contract
By Jim Adair
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Just Nova and Papa Petey all day: The Phillies have signed manager Pete Mackanin to a new two-year deal with a club option for the 2018 season. Mackanin’s contract was set to expire at the end of this year (with a club option in 2017), and GM Matt Klentak likely didn’t want to start his rebuild with leadership from a lame-duck manager, or at least one with an uncertain future.
Related: Try not to type headline tweets on a phone if you can avoid it. Autocorrect will get you every time:
https://twitter.com/BriMcL17/status/713420542343266306
When he's not writing about sports here or ranting about them on Twitter, Jim is probably watching X-Files on Netflix or drinking a beer somewhere. Jim has nothing against hockey, it's just not his style. He once met Duce Staley at a Sixers game.