{"id":361673,"date":"2025-11-07T07:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/361673\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T07:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:23:08","slug":"new-york-yankees-legend-don-mattingly-phillies-could-be-a-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/361673\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Yankees legend Don Mattingly, Phillies could be a match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/philadelphia-phillies\/246\" data-autotag=\"6232afb4-a4cc-4201-b3b1-1cbad0ddc72b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Phillies<\/a>, looking to fill their bench coach vacancy, are reported to have talked to former Yankees legend and 1985 American League MVP Don Mattingly.<\/p>\n<p>Separating from the AL champion <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/toronto-blue-jays\/238\" data-autotag=\"7f501204-c32c-4970-b406-b3cd4f4a426b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> after the World Series, it would be a reunion for &#8220;Donnie Ballgame&#8221; and Phillies manager Rob Thomson, who were on the Yankees coaching staff together previously.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that Mattingly&#8217;s son Preston is the Phillies general manager is worth noting.<\/p>\n<p>Mattingly may have his eye on another managerial position. Mattingly managed the Dodgers from 2010-15 and the Marlins from &#8217;16-22. The only manager job open is with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/colorado-rockies\/251\" data-autotag=\"6a2f9dcf-b1c6-4965-8be3-c37c3ccde77b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Colorado Rockies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this point I just want to chill and figure out what I want to do,\u201d Mattingly said. \u201cI don&#8217;t know. You just wake up today, take everything in, try to relax from the season, and again, just trying to see what comes up and what balances the family and work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The story was first reported by The Phillies Show\u2019s Jim Salisbury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phillies, looking to fill their bench coach vacancy, are reported to have talked to former Yankees legend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":361674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[4231,591,1540,4439,1283,2442,56484,4230,2502,46711,380,1286,1266,451,942,635,2228,50,450,457,950,1311,2083,20414,20418,62,1458,8790,1290,67,132,68,2386,636],"class_list":{"0":"post-361673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-angeles","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-blue","11":"tag-colorado","12":"tag-colorado-rockies","13":"tag-dodgers","14":"tag-jays","15":"tag-los","16":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","17":"tag-marlins","18":"tag-miami","19":"tag-miami-marlins","20":"tag-mlb","21":"tag-negative","22":"tag-neutral","23":"tag-new","24":"tag-new-york-yankees","25":"tag-news","26":"tag-overall","27":"tag-overall-negative","28":"tag-overall-neutral","29":"tag-philadelphia","30":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","31":"tag-phillies","32":"tag-rockies","33":"tag-sports","34":"tag-sports-news","35":"tag-toronto","36":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","37":"tag-united-states","38":"tag-unitedstates","39":"tag-us","40":"tag-yankees","41":"tag-york"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115507219927218916","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}