The Phillies will tap into the brain power of one of the game’s most successful and data-driven organizations for their next farm director.



Josh Bonifay, who spent seven of the last eight years as a minor-league coordinator, manager or coach in Houston’s system, will be the Phillies’ new director of player development, according to three baseball sources. Bonifay was the Astros’ minor-league field coordinator in 2018.



The Phillies would not confirm the hire; clubs are discouraged from making formal announcements during the World Series. For the better part of two months, the Phillies formulated an exhaustive candidate list and interviewed candidates to replace Joe Jordan, who resigned from the farm director job in early September amid philosophical differences with the front office.



Bonifay, 40, comes from a baseball family. His father, Cam, was Pittsburgh’s general manager for almost a decade and later the director of player...