The NY Times has a brief story on Don Mattingly at the Winter Meetings, “Donnie Baseball Emerges as Donnie Dodger”. Within that,
Mattingly says he is here to learn as much about his new organization as possible. He is studying videotapes of the Dodgers and videotapes of National League pitchers. Mattingly compared the learning process to how he felt when he returned as a Yankees coach after being out of baseball for several years….
He doesn’t think it’ll be weird putting on another uniform. I have to say it will be weird seeing him in Dodger Blue.
UPDATE
Tony Jackson points out another Mattingly-related wrinkle:
One more indication that new Dodgers hitting coach Don Mattingly is the heir apparent to manager Joe Torre when Torre’s contract expires after the 2010 season: while Torre is missing these meetings for personal reasons, Mattingly is here, and when reporters went into Colletti’s suite for their daily briefing, he was there, too, along with player development director DeJon Watson and special assistants Vance Lovelace and Bill Mueller.
Coaches rarely attend the winter meetings. Managers, however, almost always attend and are part of their GMs’ inner circle, participating in meetings along with all the top front-office brass.
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