Dave Dombrowski and Rob Thomson will hold their end-of-season press conferences today to answer what went wrong for the Phillies.

Season postmortems can be rather sad affairs, in part because baseball's ultimate thrill mandates a marathon in the making, a season too long followed by a postseason that for all but one team is too short.

Rob Thomson and his coaching staff will get another crack at it in 2025. Dave Dombrowski explained the Phillies' thinking in a year-end press conference Tuesday.