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Toronto Blue Jays bench coach Don Mattingly speaks during a World Series baseball media day, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, in Toronto. The Toronto Blue Jays face the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 1 on Friday. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved Don Mattingly’s 30th anniversary of his final game playing first base was a big one as he reached the World Series for the first time, doing so in his capacity as John Schneider’s bench coach with the Toronto Blue Jays. He was two outs away from winning the title that eluded him in over a decade with the Yankees, who won four titles in the first five seasons of his retirement following a career that ended with the Yankees’ crushing loss in the Division Series in the Kingdome to the Seattle Mariners. Two days after Mattingly’s title dreams were dashed by the Los Angeles Dodgers tying Game 7 of World Series with one out in the ninth and winning it on a home run by Will Smith and a series-ending double play by Alejandro Kirk, he was included on the eight-person player ballot for consideration by the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee to be possibly inducted into the Hall of Fame. Mattingly will need 75 percent of the votes from a 16-person panel, who announces the results on Dec. 7 – coincidentally the 30th anniversary of the Yankees acquiring Tino Martinez from the Mariners to succeed Mattingly at first base. Mattingly is on this ballot for the second time after getting eight in 2022 when Fred McGriff was elected. His inclusion on this method is occurring after his Hall of Fame results on the BBWAA ballot peaked at 28.2 percent. The high-water mark for Mattingly on the BBWAA ballot occurred in his first year…

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