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Don Mattingly is pictured Oct. 28. AP<\/p>\nORLANDO \u2014 The long wait just got a little longer for Don Mattingly.<\/p>\n
The former Yankees first baseman once again fell short of induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame, coming up six votes shy on the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee ballot, the results of which were revealed on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The eight players on the ballot \u2014 Mattingly, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Carlos Delgado, Jeff Kent, Dale Murphy, Gary Sheffield and Fernando Valenzuela \u2014 needed to receive 12 votes from the 16-person committee to earn induction into Cooperstown next July.<\/p>\n
Kent was the only member voted in.<\/p>\n
This was Mattingly\u2019s 19th time he was up for consideration into the Hall of Fame. <\/p>\n
Don Mattingly is pictured Oct. 28. AP<\/p>\n
Three years ago, he had fallen short, only receiving eight votes while Fred McGriff was unanimously selected for enshrinement. <\/p>\n
In his 15 years on the Baseball Writers\u2019 Association of America ballot, Mattingly topped out at 28.2 percent of the vote, well short of the requisite 75 percent.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf it doesn\u2019t happen, it\u2019s not going to change who I am, what I think about things,\u201d Mattingly said recently on \u201cThe Show with Joel Sherman and Jon Heyman\u201d podcast. \u201cNo bitterness is going to be in there. But you hope you get that opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mattingly\u2019s next chance for entrance into the Hall of Fame will come in 2028, when the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee votes again.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If not for a chronic back injury that cut his career short, the 64-year-old Mattingly may have had a smoother and quicker road to Cooperstown. <\/p>\n
In 14 seasons as a big leaguer \u2014 in which he was a six-time All-Star, nine-time Gold Glover and the 1985 American League MVP \u2014 the Yankee hit .307 with a .830 OPS, 2,153 hits, 222 home runs and 1,099 RBIs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Don Mattingly is pictured during a 1988 game. AP<\/p>\n
Much of that production came from 1984-1989, when he was one of the game\u2019s best players, before a degenerative disc in his back began to take its toll. <\/p>\n
In addition to winning the MVP in 1985 \u2014 when he hit .324 with 35 home runs, 145 RBIs and a .939 OPS \u2014 Mattingly also placed second (1986), fifth (1984) and seventh (1987) in MVP voting during his prime.<\/p>\n
Mattingly finished his career with a 42.4 bWAR, accruing 33.0 of that from 1984-1989. Using JAWS \u2014 Jay Jaffe\u2019s WAR-based scoring system that evaluates players\u2019 candidacy for the Hall of Fame \u2014 Mattingly\u2019s 39.1 ranked 40th among all first basemen, just ahead of Gil Hodges, the former Mets legend who was elected posthumously in 2021 by the Golden Days Era committee.<\/p>\n
Mattingly\u2019s seven-year peak WAR of 35.7 was tied for 33rd, just behind McGriff (36.0).<\/p>\n
Following his injury-forced retirement after the 1995 season \u2014 made official in 1997, just before the Yankees entered their dynasty \u2014 Mattingly went on to serve as a hitting coach for the Yankees and Dodgers before managing 12 seasons with the Dodgers and Marlins. <\/p>\n
He re-entered the spotlight this fall as the bench coach of the Blue Jays, falling painstakingly short of what would have been his first World Series championship.<\/p>\n
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This year\u2019s Contemporary Baseball Eras Committee \u2014 deciding on players whose greatest contributions came since 1980 \u2014 featured Hall of Fame members Fergie Jenkins, Jim Kaat, Juan Marichal, Tony P\u00e9rez, Ozzie Smith, Alan Trammell and Robin Yount; major league executives Mark Attanasio, Doug Melvin, Arte Moreno, Kim Ng, Tony Reagins and Terry Ryan; and veteran media members\/historians Steve Hirdt, Tyler Kepner and Jayson Stark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO \u2014 The long wait just got a little longer for Don Mattingly. The former Yankees first baseman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33324,10745,20,9,11,10,321,319],"class_list":["post-63837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-baseball-hall-of-fame","tag-don-mattingly","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}