{"id":718,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/718","headline":"Phillies boss tells Trea Turner: fix your defense or move","dek":"Dave Dombrowski says the $300 million shortstop has until spring training to prove he can still play the position.","body":"Dave Dombrowski has a message for Trea Turner: get better at shortstop, or get a new position. The Phillies president of baseball operations delivered the warning at a press conference at Citizens Bank Park on Thursday morning, a year after he aimed similarly pointed criticism at Bryce Harper.\n\nTurner, who has seven years left on his $300 million contract, just finished arguably the worst season of his career. He hit .242 with a .675 OPS and led the league with 21 errors at shortstop, posting -17 defensive runs saved, the third time in his four years with the Phillies he's finished in the red there.\n\n\"From a defensive perspective we were very clear. He knows he has to be better at shortstop,\" Dombrowski said. \"And I told him that it's really mandatory that he's like that. He feels he can play, and if he plays shortstop like he did in '25, he can play shortstop. But if he plays it like he did in '26, he can't. And he totally understands that.\"\n\nFor now, the Phillies plan to keep Turner at shortstop and have hired a former Mets manager as infield coach to help him get there. Turner has through spring training to show the improvement is real.","published_at":"2026-10-16T23:48:26.301536+00:00","source_count":4,"written_from":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Phillies put Trea Turner on notice. Get better at shortstop or find another position","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/phillies-put-trea-turner-notice-154441765.html"},{"outlet":"ESPN","publisher":"ESPN","title":"Dombrowski puts Turner on notice: Get better at SS or find new position","url":"https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/50195061/phillies-dombrowski-puts-turner-notice-get-better-ss"},{"outlet":"Fox Sports","publisher":"Fox Sports","title":"Phillies President Dave Dombrowski Stresses Trea Turner 'Has To Be Better'","url":"https://www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/dave-dombrowski-trea-turner-shortstop-comments-phillies-news"},{"outlet":"CBS Sports","publisher":"CBS Sports","title":"Phillies plan to keep Trea Turner at shortstop, hire ex-Mets manager as infield coach","url":"https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/phillies-trea-turner-shortstop-hire-ex-mets-manager/"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Phillies get honest with Trea Turner about future at shortstop after bad 2026 season","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/phillies-honest-trea-turner-future-150837718.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Dave Dombrowski blasts Trea Turner for disappointing season with Phillies","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/dave-dombrowski-blasts-trea-turner-174858552.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Notes of Dave Dombrowski’s Press Conference","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/notes-dave-dombrowski-press-conference-190000965.html"}],"image":null,"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}