Don Mattingly Returns to Phillies on Two-Year Deal

Don Mattingly gets signed to a two-year deal. He's coming back to Philadelphia. I think that's great news for everyone involved. But, again, a lot of this is because not once but twice Dombrowski and company got told no by Cora. So, interesting, the maneuvering happening there. But I think, yeah, you can do a lot worse than Mattingly coming back for two years. That's for sure. Yeah, their pitching is really good. They still have very good hitting. it's whatever you know recipe is in their dinner per se it smells so good when it comes out of the oven and at the end it just doesn't doesn't taste as good as you thought i don't think that has anything to do with Mattingly i think it just has to do with the complexion of the team and i mean in the end when you take really take a big step back is it just that joe the phillies have just been unlucky because i look at them on paper and i wonder to myself okay so if you decide to move on from Trey Turner or Bryce Harper or Schwarber or Christopher Sanchez is that really the right move i don't know that you're gonna come back from that you know like and that's what they're sort of suggesting has to be done is something has to change there because it hasn't worked and they've been doing this for five years agreed but what's the flip side to that what exactly do you want to you want to be the Mets is that is that what you want to do okay you want to give that a shot see how that goes so as frustrating as it may be for Phillies fans i have to say because of Sanchez and Wheeler and Lozardo and that pitching fix your bullpen again if you can add a couple of players to the lineup in the mix and you got to run it back and try again i don't i don't see a better scenario out there that's not like free agency is amazing this year either lockout aside great free agency doesn't have it has like two or three really good players that's it this isn't a mega year for it no it's not and you know they're not getting harper's not getting any younger none of those guys are getting any younger so uh the opportunity two-year deal i mean they fix the bullpen i think if you can fix the bullpen and maybe get a couple i don't know what their farm system is like right what what do they have in the farm middle of the road they have a couple of guys who who could help but i i think a team like that if they decide to fight again which i i suspect it will would have to i think via trade would be it like like the guy that the guy that they can move on from who may you know need another uh place to play and that they could replace and you could see it working out for both would be Trea Turner trade Turner because turner you know he didn't really have a great year he hasn't he's been a good philly he hasn't been a great philly he was yeah like i like i i could see some teams saying let's buy low a little on him but we'll give up a significant piece where you guys can go and get a new shortstop get that figured out i could i could and then the Dodgers could could say to everybody well look what we did we traded Turner this is you know part of it but but we all know that's going to require uh more than that but you're right they're not getting any younger my buddy JT behind the plate Schwarber Harper uh Wheeler like Nola i mean this is not this is not a young team But this is one of those Be careful what you wish for And all they have to do is look over at the Mets And say, okay, if you really want to reconfigure this And trade Pete Alonso Or let Pete Alonso go trade Brandon Nimmo And say, let's try something different Dombrowski, that'll be his last year as GM That'll be it Exactly correct That would be the end of it But, got a little continuity now So I think the window of opportunity is still there But they better figure They gotta figure that bullpen out They really, really do there. And Mattingly, of course, his son's the acting GM. So that should be fun watching all of that play out moving forward.