Sept. 22: Mattingly’s new contract comes with a rather significant pay cut, reports Ken Rosenthal of the Athletic. While Mattingly’s previous deal came with a $2.8MM salary for 2019, this pact is believed to pay him $2MM or less annually. The Marlins declined to formally announce the terms.
Sept. 20: The Marlins have formally announced the extension. It’s a two-year deal with a mutual option for the 2022 season.
Sept. 19, 9:46pm: It’s a two-year deal with an option, Jon Heyman of MLB Network tweets.
8:38pm: The Marlins and manager Don Mattingly have agreed on a contract extension, as per Daniel Alvarez-Montes of El Extrabase (Twitter link). The deal will be officially announced tomorrow at a press conference.
Mattingly’s four-year contract was set to expire after the season, and there had been a great deal of speculation that the skipper’s time in Miami was coming to a close. Mattingly was a holdover from Jeffrey Loria’s ownership, and new CEO Derek Jeter said just last month that upper management hadn’t yet made a decision about whether or not to retain Mattingly beyond the 2019 campaign.
While Jeter and company have largely cleaned house within the Marlins’ organization since Bruce Sherman’s ownership group bought the team in 2017, some key personnel have been retained, most notably Mattingly and president of baseball operations Michael Hill. Their contracts could have played a role (Hill is also under a long-term deal that runs through 2020), though the fact that Mattingly is now staying is certainly acknowledgement that Jeter’s regime isn’t entirely doing away with holdovers from the Loria days.
Indeed, it’s hard to blame Mattingly for the 272-364 record he carries as the Marlins’ manager. A respectable 79-82 campaign in 2016 was marred by the tragic death of Jose Fernandez near the end of the season, 2017 was a 77-85 writeoff dominated by the impending team sale and rumors of yet another fire sale of the Marlins’ top players, and the miserable 116-197 record of the last two seasons have borne the results of that fire sale. The Fish are on pace to crack the 100-loss threshold for the third time in franchise history.
Somewhat surprisingly, Mattingly’s 636 games in the dugout already make him the longest-serving manager the Marlins have ever had, which speaks to the tumult this organization has more or less faced since day one. Mattingly’s retention will provide some sense of stability as the Marlins put together a new core group of young talent in their latest rebuild.
One of the game’s biggest stars of the 1980’s during his playing days with the Yankees, the 58-year-old Mattingly is about to complete his ninth year as a manager. Miami’s struggles brought Mattingly’s career managerial record (718-727) under the .500 mark, as he enjoyed five years of winning baseball with the Dodgers from 2011-15 that included three NL West titles.
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Wait …..what?????
Love this!!!!
In fairness there isn’t a person alive that could have won with the team he was given. They literally traded all of his talent away. Could also be Jeter doing another Yank a solid as well….
You realize he was the manager when they had Stanton, Yelich and Ozuna right?
They had great hitting but no pitching , bullpen and defense
And they were making a playoff push as a wild card up until the Fernandez thing
Your take is TIRESOME, oh so TIRESOME!!!
So is your reply
Jeter dumping Stanton on them wasn’t a solid
“Could also be Jeter doing another Yank a solid as well” ok what solids has Jeter given the Yanks?
Stanton trade?
Na, if anything the Yanks gave the Marlins the biggest solid ever.
The Yankees pulled a reach around deal here but the Marlins were the ones who came first in the deal because of the load the Yankees have to blow for the injured Stanton. Every day you have to wonder what he’ll pull next. Jeter oiled it up for the Yankees? Not hardly.
It amazes me how people forget Stanton refused to accept a trade anywhere except the Yankees
He could have gotten so much more for Stanton. It was stanton and cash for starlin Castro. I’m honestly shocked Castro wasnt traded at the deadline. He’ll find a new home this winter when they trade him
tharrie is correct. The Marlins had ZERO leverage. Stanton had a full no trade clause and after a deal was nearly final with another team (the Cardinals if I remember correctly), he makes it clear he will only accept a trade to the Yankees.
ZERO leverage!
Doesn’t sound accurate, NY was 2nd choice or alternative for the SoCal native. Maybe you mean he chose NY over Sf and STL-the other teams with competitive offers?
Today the Marlins have 2 prospects and the Yankees have a massively overpaid LF/DH that should only play RF. If he’s even on the field to begin with. Cashman blew a load thinking about Stanton and Judge together. Really the only explanation. Considering his risk models said no 6th year for Corbin. I can’t imagine that same model gave the green light for Stanton. A man with serious injury problems and a 10 year contract.
That was not a good trade for the Yankees in the slightest. Blows my mind that in 2019 anyone could think it is. And That’s before considering the massive amount of leverage Stanton had with that NTC. The fact that he got the Yankees to take on that much cash was the real win.
*Jester
Good for Donnie Baseball. I would love for him to be there when the Marlins start winning meaningful games.
I can’t see him managing until he’s 98.
HA!
sad he will likely nevef get into the hall as a manager either for managing such a terrible team. he should get in via his combined managing and playing careers someday.
Whatttt would’ve never expected this. Good for Donnie! I hope they get him some talent so he has somewhat of a chance
I like the move. Mattingly is a great baseball guy and has done enough to keep the players showing up to the ballpark day-in & day out while the organization rebuilds for the long haul.
Also important to note he has a close bond with Jeter.
I had no idea getting players to “show up” was a commendable trait for Managers.
Pretty sure the paychecks keep them coming back more than the Manager.
Cam, I do believe he meant show up, play hard and not get discouraged and quit trying.
Exactly. Getting the players to show up , play hard and not quit on the team.
Unlike the Miami Dolphins
$600,000 a year minimum salary these guys better “show up”!
Yeah I imagine that if the players didn;’t show up, that Mattingly wouldn’t have receive an extension.
You’re correct. Because if management sees that he’s not making an effort to develop talent from within, what purpose is it having him in the dugout? The have some nice players like Brian Anderson and Garrett Cooper. Mattingly has been credited with helping fix Marcelo Ozuna’s swing and they have some nice pitchers who they’ve acquired via trades. I’m hopeful about their future.
They will win only if he regrows the moustache.
Moustache could only help.
Absolutely. He and John Oates never looked the same or reached the same heights after they lost their mustache mojo.
Good move, IMHO. Not that I watch them a LOT, but I’m always impressed that they do, as was said, come to play. And not only the young-uns, who are trying to impress; that’s fairly easy to do. But the old guys seem to put out and play hard too.
I don’t think he’s a great manager, but he’s a pretty good one. And perfect for that team at this time.
Charitable of the Marlins. He’s not bad, but he’s also not great. This works for now though.
Not gonna contend until at least 2023 either way
He still needs to shave those sideburns
As someone who actually watched a bunch of dodger games when he was the manager and then he had an absolutely loaded roster the second he left is when they started the run of going to the World Series. He made a lot of decisions that just made no sense and as a Yankee fan was so glad they did not hire him as manager. In Los Angeles the only analysis of a player he got right was Corey Seager everyone else he tried to get out of town ended up becoming stars.
Um, Puig?
i recall Mattingly treating Puig rough about lack of hustle and then watching Adrian Gonzalez dog it every game all game and never a word from Mattingly. Also Donnie Ballgame looks 20 years older than his 58. And i remember a bad back keeping Mattingly from being an even better hitter than he already was.
Boooooo!!!
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Even more than the contract extension, Mattingly deserves a Nobel Prize.
I’ll always have a warm spot in my heart for Donnie Baseball for how he played the game.
That said, I think he’s essentially a caretaker until Gary Denbo can work his magic and get solid talent up to the Marlins.
In all fairness, those pennants & winning seasons in LA would have happened even if my cat were managing that roster
LA started to win pennants after he left, so he’s worse than your cat
So they want him to lose nearly 500 games with the Marlins then they have an excuse to fire him. That is messed up. Jeter is being a dillhole of an owner.
Mattingly willingly just signed a contract extension that pays him what I would imagine is at least 750K a year. If Mattingly was concerned about his managerial W/L record he could’ve happily declined that money. This is just another garbage comment.
That’s your opinion. the fact of the matter is it’s the truth. He’ll resign before the contract is up.
Kid, he’s not going to resign. If they want to fire him they’ll have fo pay him what he’s owed. There would’ve been plenty of interest in the Marlins job from bench coaches around the league. They choose to stick w Mattingly. You have some conspiracy theory that Jeter wants to tank Mattingly W/L record and then fire him? That’s a load of crap. If he didn’t want him back he could’ve let him go this year. Instead he choose to extend him.
Go braves!
Mattingly is a dirty manager. He encourages his pitchers to intentionally hit good young opposing hitters for no other reason then they are producing. He has had so many Marlin’s pitchers intentionally hit Ronald Acuna Jr for no other reason than he got tired of watching him hit lead off homers against him. It has happened so much at this point that Acuna is lucky he hasn’t had a career threatening injury over it. The sad thing is that the Marlins weren’t really in contention any of the times it happened. He injured a promising young player out of spite. That’s pretty disgusting if you ask me.
Reupping Donny Baseball is more proof that the Marlins are not in it to win it
100 losses every season? yeah, let’s have some more of that!
Really Donnie??? Really???!!! You want to be manager so badly that you would take a extension to stay with one of the worst organizations in baseball? No pride?? No desire to win games and go to the World Series? Shadow of what he used to be.
I still say he is a decent manager. He had some good players over the years but overall terrible teams. Unfortunately, I concur with others though – he may not win if he stays there – unless one of the teams just somehow win (a la Major League and Major League II).
Good for Donnie Two Times. I wouldn’t want him managing my favorite team, but Miami is fine.
Hmmm… I thought the Marlins would let Donnie go.
Mattingly is an awful manager, and both he and the Marlins franchise know it. Had either believed differently he’d have either been given a raise, or at least brought back for the same money. The fact that the Marlins low-balled him shows they felt he had no leverage in negotiations and weren’t afraid to lose him. The fact that he accepted clearly shows he didn’t have enough confidence to bet on himself landing another job.
The Marlins are that strapped they need to cut the manager a few hundred thousands dollars!!??
Sad…..
They had an overpaid manager to begin with. Don Mattingly still makes twice as much as Alex Cora. And Mattingly has to sign the deal himself so I’m sure if he thought he could be compensated better elsewhere he would’ve searched for the opportunity.