The Philadelphia Phillies will hire longtime baseball executive Dave Dombrowski as president of baseball operations, according to The Athletic‘s Jayson Stark. This leaves the Mets as the only team left without a president of baseball operations or general manager.

The hiring comes as a bit of a surprise in the baseball world as Dombrowski, who was the architect of two World Series champions with the Florida Marlins (1997) and Boston Red Sox (2018), has recently been a part of a group trying to bring a major league baseball team to Nashville.

As recently as November, he reiterated that he was committed to the Nashville group, telling The Athletic‘s Ken Rosenthal, “I’m staying in Nashville,” In the interview, he said he gave the head of the Music City Baseball group “a commitment when I moved here that as we continue to pursue a new team — expansion, relocation or if it goes nowhere — that I would stay here with them.” This is evidently not the case.

Dombrowski will take over the baseball ops job with the Phillies as the team is at a crossroads following a handful of disappointing seasons with big-money payroll. The team’s owner, John Middleton, has already noted the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on their current financial situation, and one of their best players–J.T. Realmuto–is expected to have plenty of suitors for his services this offseason. There were also recent reports they were open to trading Zack Wheeler, though Middleton disputed those reports.

With Dombrowski soon at the helm, anything is possible with the Phillies. Matt Gelb, the Phillies beat writer for The Athletic, said sources have told him Dombrowski isn’t being hired as for a quick turn-around, but rather “they’ll be asking Dombrowski to first examine everything that went wrong over the last five years and, in some cases, undo much of what the previous regime installed.” So as I said: anything is possible.

In addition to his two World Series wins, Dombrowski helped construct two Detroit Tigers teams that won the AL pennant in 2006 and 2012. He most recently was the president of baseball operations for the Red Sox in 2019.

He was fired less than 10 months after winning the World Series, due in part to a disappointing World Series follow-up season. The team was also wrapped up in its own sign-stealing scandal (albeit less severe than the Astros) while he was president of baseball ops, too.