For the Canadian football player, see Don Mattingly (Canadian football).
Baseball player
Don Mattingly
Mattingly at the 2015 MLB Winter Meetings
Toronto Blue Jays – No. 23
First baseman / Manager / Coach
Born: (1961-04-20) April 20, 1961 (age 63) Evansville, Indiana, U.S.
Batted: Left
Threw: Left
MLB debut
September 8, 1982, for the New York Yankees
Last MLB appearance
October 1, 1995, for the New York Yankees
MLB statistics
Batting average
.307
Hits
2,153
Home runs
222
Runs batted in
1,099
Managerial record
889–950
Winning %
.483
Teams
As player
New York Yankees (1982–1995)
As manager
Los Angeles Dodgers (2011–2015)
Miami Marlins (2016–2022)
As coach
New York Yankees (2004–2007)
Los Angeles Dodgers (2008–2010)
Toronto Blue Jays (2023–present)
Career highlights and awards
6× All-Star (1984–1989)
AL MVP (1985)
9× Gold Glove Award (1985–1989, 1991–1994)
3× Silver Slugger Award (1985–1987)
AL batting champion (1984)
AL RBI leader (1985)
NL Manager of the Year (2020)
New York Yankees No. 23 retired
Monument Park honoree
Donald Arthur Mattingly (born April 20, 1961)[1] is an American professional baseball coach, and former first baseman and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB). He is the bench coach for the Toronto Blue Jays of MLB. Nicknamed "the Hit Man" and "Donnie Baseball", he spent his entire 14-year MLB playing career with the New York Yankees and later managed the Los Angeles Dodgers for five years and the Miami Marlins for seven years.
Mattingly graduated from Reitz Memorial High School in Evansville, Indiana, and was selected by the Yankees in the 1979 amateur draft. Debuting with the Yankees in 1982 after four seasons in Minor League Baseball, he emerged as the Yankees' starting first baseman after a successful rookie season in 1983. Mattingly was named to the American League (AL) All-Star team six times. He won nine Gold Glove Awards (an AL record for a first baseman), three Silver Slugger Awards, the 1984 AL batting title, and was the 1985 AL Most Valuable Player. He served as captain of the Yankees from 1991 through 1995, when he retired as a player. The Yankees later retired Mattingly's uniform number (23), making him the only Yankee to have his number retired without having won a World Series with the team.
Returning to the Yankees as a coach in 2004 for manager Joe Torre, he followed Torre to the Dodgers in 2008, and succeeded him as the Dodgers' manager in 2011. The Dodgers and Mattingly mutually parted ways after the 2015 season, and he became manager of the Miami Marlins in 2016. He remained with the Marlins until they mutually parted ways after the 2022 season.
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