YANKEES: HIRE THIS MAN!

Paul Semendinger
Nov 7, 2025
1 min read

By Paul Semendinger

November 7, 2025

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If there ever was a slam dunk, simple, easy, and obvious decision to make for a team, this is it.

HEY YANKEES, BRING BACK DON MATTINGLY.

I am not saying Mattingly needs to be the manager.

The Yankees could use Don Mattingly as a hitting coach, a first base coach, a third base coach, or a bench coach.

This is easy.

This is simple.

This should be done today.

The Yankees Need To Bring Donnie Baseball Home.

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(Note - I plan to run this article a few times over the next week or so to keep it on the front page of the site.)

21 Comments

jjw49

Nov 07, 2025

As much as I like D-Mat, donning the pinstripes for a touch of past Yankee nostalgia other than that...... My only question would be WHY?????

jjw49

Nov 09, 2025

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Getting into the HOF would be FANTASTIC ........😀

fuster

Nov 07, 2025

at the least, they must make an offer of employment.

I love the idea of allowing Mattingly to become the first base coach.

might be a bit awkward for Boone to have Mattingly on hand, but I dont much care about Boone's level of comfort.

I would like to see Realmuto signed as well

Paul Semendinger

Nov 07, 2025

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Exactly!

Alan B.

Nov 07, 2025

Paul, one big problem - his son Preston is the Baseball GM of the Phillies (they have a Business GM too). Plus Rob Thompson is the manager there. There are already reports circulating that a Phillies job, the dugout or or an advisory type of role, similar to what Andrew Eugene Pettitte has, is waiting for him there, all he has to do is say yes. Going ''Home' to the Bronx, or working with his son, to me is no choice at all .... My son first.

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Robert Malchman

Nov 07, 2025

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Yes, I was agreeing with you.

etbkarate

Nov 07, 2025

They should absolutely bring him in. But i dont think it will happen because Don's hitting philosophies clash with theirs.

Alan B.

Nov 07, 2025

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You think I make the comment time after time about how and why David Cone took himself out of the running to replace Larry Rothschild as PC. Or what Rothschild himself said to reporters between games of a straight DH in Detroit in 2019 is me running my mouth. Or when I bring up what I've seen on the YES program HOMEGROWN ? Or what I caught Preston Claiborne saying a few years ago when he was the Renegades (A+) PC about ut 90 pitches for a SP and damn the results? Well, let me save you some time:

BRIAN CASHMAN IS SO DEEP IN WITH HIS ANALYTICAL APPROACH TO COACHING, that is a big reason Volpe stinks, why Spencer…

yankeerudy

Nov 07, 2025

If they do nothing else this off-season, bringing him back would still make the team better.

Robert Malchman

Nov 07, 2025

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If nothing else, they wouldn't have to waste an available uniform number on him.

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