Don Mattingly will not continue as manager of the Miami Marlins next season after announcing Sunday that he and the team’s front office agreed the club needs another voice in management.
Mattingly’s contract expires at the end of the current season. The pilot said he met with majority owner Bruce Sherman and general manager Kim Ng to discuss the future, and that “all parties agreed” that the time was right to make a change.
“I am proud and honored to have been the manager of the Marlins for the past seven years, and I have enjoyed my experiences and connections that I have had within the organization,” Mattingly said. “I am excited about spending more time with my family in Evansville, Indiana, and about future projects.”
Mattingly, who is by far the winningest manager in franchise history, is completing his seventh season with the Marlins.
He woke up on Sunday with a 437-583 mark in Miami, with just one positive balance campaign in those seven years — the 31-29 record in 2020, a season shortened by the pandemic and in which the team reached the playoffs by first time since 2003.
His departure implies that the season that began with a radical change in Miami ends with another.
In February, Derek Jeter — the franchise’s chief executive officer and the first African-American in baseball history to serve in that role with a franchise — unexpectedly resigned after four and a half years that fell short of his successes as a New York Yankees player. York and inducted him into the Hall of Fame.
And now comes Mattingly’s departure, which means another guy will be at the helm in upcoming spring training.
