{"id":802123,"date":"2026-09-11T07:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T07:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/802123\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T07:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T07:16:07","slug":"why-don-mattingly-is-intriguing-option-if-mets-miss-on-alex-cora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/802123\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Don Mattingly is intriguing option if Mets miss on Alex Cora"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mets interim manager Andy Green has the underachieving team finally playing winning baseball<\/a>, and Green makes sense here as a viable permanent manager. But since indications remain strong club higher-ups like Green so much in the front office that they intend to return him there and conduct a full-fledged managerial search, we need to consider alternatives.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We previously recommended the Mets aim high<\/a> for managing savant Alex Cora, which might be a long shot for them considering he\u2019ll likely have other attractive options, including the playoff-bound Phillies, which offered him the managing job before elevating interim manager Don Mattingly from his bench-coaching job. But if Phillies baseball president Dave Dombrowski makes good on his original desire to hire Cora, why shouldn\u2019t the Mets then consider Mattingly, who\u2019s doing a superb job in Philly?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mattingly is reportedly enjoying the job after previous managing stops in L.A. and Miami and would undoubtedly stay in that role for Philly, if asked. It\u2019s also unknown whether he\u2019d consider jumping to the rival Mets should Dombrowski turn again to Cora, his work partner in Boston\u2019s 2018 World Series title. (Just a guess, but the Yankees might be more enticing for Mattingly should they ever have an opening.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"BostonBoston Red Sox manager Alex Cora is seen in the dugout during the fifth inning of a game against the New York Yankees at Fenway Park on Wednesday, April 22, 2026. Jason Szenes for the New York Post<\/p>\n

If Cora is Dombrowski\u2019s choice \u2014 and that\u2019s obviously very possible, perhaps especially if the Phillies suffer yet another quick October exit \u2014 Mattingly might decline a return to coach there and rather assume a role consulting for Dombrowski. And while Cora may have multiple options, his trust in Dombrowski would weigh heavily after originally declining the job to keep his promise to spend the summer with his daughters and fianc\u00e9.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mets interim manager Andy Green has the underachieving team finally playing winning baseball, and Green makes sense here…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2397],"tags":[858,52179,5,9925,4,61,144,25,4216,40,185,430,428],"class_list":["post-802123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia-phillies","tag-alex-cora","tag-andy-green","tag-baseball","tag-don-mattingly","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-mets","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-philadelphiaphillies","tag-phillies","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117251184515496013","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}