Editing Terry Francona (section)

====Philadelphia Phillies (1997–2000)====
After the 1996 season, he was hired as manager of the Phillies, who had won the NL pennant in 1993 but then had three consecutive losing seasons.<ref name=":0" /> In Francona's four seasons (1997–2000) as the Phils' skipper, the club never rose above third place in the [[National League East]]. His best finish with the Phillies was 77–85 in 1999. In 1998 and 1999, the Phillies finished in third place, behind the [[Atlanta Braves]] and their [[Mets–Phillies rivalry|division-rival]] [[New York Mets]]. He was fired after the 2000 season, finishing his Phillies tenure with a 285–363 record.<ref name="managerial record">{{cite web|title=Terry Francona|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/francte01.shtml|access-date=December 20, 2014|work=[[Baseball-Reference]]|publisher=[[Sports Reference LLC]]|location=United States}}</ref>

Francona spent the following season as a special assistant to the [[general manager (baseball)|general manager]] with the [[Cleveland Indians]] in 2001, which was followed by two one-year terms as a bench coach for the [[Texas Rangers (baseball)|Texas Rangers]] (2002) and [[Oakland Athletics]] (2003).<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=December 4, 2003|title=Red Sox hire Francona as manager|url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/news/story?id=1677397|access-date=June 14, 2021|website=[[ESPN]]|language=en}}</ref>