Too bad he had such a bad back. How is Kirby Puckett in the HOF and he isn’t? I think if he played one more year and got that ring, maybe things would be different.
@@jeffjacobson59 Puckett has a career .318 BA, a 10-time AS in 12 seasons with a litany of Silver Slugger awards and Gold Gloves in a condensed career. He belongs.
@@theclownservatarian6410 I think his point was Mattingly also belongs, not that Puckett doesn't belong. It's debatable. It depends on people's criteria for the hall. For a couple years, Mattingly was arguably the best baseball player in the world. That should count for a lot. But his prime was short and after he got hurt he wasn't close to the same player. No championships. 1 MVP and should have won 2 in a row. Very similar career numbers to Puckett though. Puckett was good for longer and has the rings. Both had careers shortened due to injury.
The Yankees should’ve hired Donny to be the manager. Any Yankee fan who grew up in the 80’s loves Donnie Baseball. There’s no way you couldn’t have. 5:10 AMEN! Let The Yankees front office know this! They have about 6 of those guys
Right on, the Yankees have a ton of players up and down the lineup - BB/HR/K, like 4 or 5 any given night, then couple that with .200 hitters. Cashmen is not this guru people make him out to be.
Not a Yankee fan but I agree they got alot of big swingers. Should've passed on Stanton. Cashman is Not a genius, he's had access to a big checkbook for a long time. Alot of guys could've done as well or better. Lastly, I think Mattingly was snubbed. Never liked Girardi, still don't. Boone seems like a nice guy, I would have picked Mattingly instead though.
It already is. The Astros, the team that maybe took analytics too far, became the best team at avoiding strikeouts. The problem is that "analytics" also say that, from the pitching side, you should go for more strikeouts. So teams are doing both at once: trying to put the ball in play on offense, and finding pitchers who don't allow balls in play.
I grew up watching Mattingly and Winfield, 2 of the best players in their era. It's a shame Mattingly had back problems, or he would have been a surefire hall of famer.
Donnie didn't care if they threw it up around the letters he just came out of his crouch and laced one to left center. Loved watching him hit top 3 favorite Yankees
I don't get it ... hitting the ball HARD ... is not the same as trying to hit the ball up and out. I'll take the Aaron and Mays versions of hitting the ball hard and let the chips fall where they may!
@@sas6561 comparisons using Hall of Famers... 👎 Launch angles = Fewer ground balls. That's a plus for any hitter. As a Dodgers fan, Justin Turner and Chris Taylor are excellent examples of fringe players who became stars by adjusting their swings' launch angles.
@@alexchavez3383 ... LOVE! your thumbs down because I used Hall of Famers as examples!!! I guess because I can't use HOF players from your point of view, Yogi doesn't count either? 1950 Season ... 597 at bats, 28 homers, 124 rbi's, .322 ba, and 12, (TWELVE!!!) strike-outs. Wonder what kind of numbers your launch angle darlings would put up if they had just 12 strike outs for their whole season? (Oh, and do you even know all 597 at bats were without helmet protection, just Yogi wearing a cloth hat in the beanball era.)
@@Kaibat1205 not at all Kai, but keep on laughing if it makes you feel better. Since you OBVIOUSLY! have not read The Splinter's book, "The Science of Hitting", where Williams points out that the ball is travelling on a downward trajectory from higher ground and therefore the bat plane, especially on low pitches, needs to be on an upward plane to hit the ball squarely, (upward "launch angle"). Williams said "Golf the low ones" ... "Swing level at belt level" ... and "Chop down at the top of the strike zone". You obviously have not played baseball beyond high school, (if that). Mets for me, so pretty sure I have definite "work experience" over you in this conversation, but keep laughing anyway!
Don didn't do too bad in that series, he hit over .400 I wish his back would have let him play a few more years, he deserved at least one trip to the series.
Thank you Don Mattingly! Why are these guys in the media so enthralled in changing baseball. It’si work for over 100 years so what it’s not a TV sport. Go to a game there is 81 of them. Tired of the mainstream media and wanting humans to be in front of the TV 24/7
Or what about Dave Kingman or Adam Dunn? I was intrigued when Mattingly said your have a guy on third with less than two outs, and your team can't get the run home, because everyone is swinging for the fences; yet, the run at third base is the winning run. I still prefer the Ty Cobb, Rod Carew, Wade Boggs approach to hitting and advancing the runners on base, where batting averages mean something, as those hitters wear out the pitchers. Dave Kingman, Steve Balboni, Rob Deer, Adam Dunn baseball is strikeouts, walks and home runs. Yet, the home run may occur, when your team is already leading 6 - 1. This, that particular home run is irrelevant and does not matter.
@@jkrasney1 Kingman walked at about the same rate as Balboni. Deer walked more but still not nearly enough to warrant a '3-true outcome' label. Dunn is a disciple, he just retired a few years ago so way too recent. The guy who did it before Tettleton was Darrell Evans but his strikeout numbers weren't insane like today's players so the best comparison really is Tettleton.
@@jkrasney1 I'm with you, definitely. The first time I saw a middle infielder lift his leg, Sadaharu-style, and swing for the fences on a two-strike count I knew we were in for a rough patch of MLB meta.
Grew up in the Bronx. Enjoyed the P.A.L free Yankee tickets to see Donny baseball. Hopefully he can get a WS ring as a manager 🤞🏽. Just a great player to watch back in the days.
Believe it or not, there was a season when Don Mattingly played just about the entire season and only struck out 21 times. I’m very surprised DP didn’t ask Donnie about his struggles against former Cleveland Indian pitcher Greg Swindell
Not many true hitters like this out there anymore. You don't see guys that win batting titles who also lead the league in doubles and RBIs all at the same time. What could have been if he didn't injure his back.
@@dangelo1369 maybe. The fact Winfield took a season off is very telling because Winfield was a player who played hurt and never took a day off unless it was given to him.
Don Mattingly and Mike Trout, two of the greats, Donnie SO'd 444 times in his career, Trout, 1279 and counting. Mattingly has also played 400 more games.
Mike Trout 378 home runs, Don Mattingly 222, and Mattingly played 400 more games. Mike Trout 212 stolen bases, Don Mattingly 14, and Mattingly played 400 more games. Mike Trout career war 86, Don Mattingly 42, and guess wha, Don Mattingly played 400 more games.
@@jasont7814 I'm not comparing who is better, its clearly Trout, Im talking about striking out. However, if you want to take an interesting look at them statistically, compare Donnie 84-89 and Trout 14-19, both the best 6 year stretches of their careers. Trout is a better player but not across the board
@@drewskij2175 Yes, I thought you choosing just one metric for comparison was interesting, as they are completely different players. I’d agree Donnie has a good case for being in the HoF.
Having several of those high strikeout power hitters is exasperating. Back in 1991, Detroit had Rob Deer (175) and Pete Incaviglia (92) in the lineup. That, along with Cecil Fielder (151), Travis Fryman (149), and Mickey Tettleton (131) made for a long season of strikeouts or home runs, with litttle else. Oh, and Tony Phillips with 95. As a team: 1185 strikeouts. 209 Home runs. 817 quiet (or noisy, depending on how you look at it) runs... They won 84 games, but weren't really all that exciting to watch. I hate all or nothing Baseball.
What a player. I remember when Billy started playing him in the OF in 1983, just to get his bat in the lineup. Next year he hit .343 and won the batting title.
The only reason the "launch angle" approach worked the last few years is because of the juiced ball. Ball travels further in the air, hit the ball in the air. But now those same shots are popping up 20 feet short of the fence because they de-juiced the ball. Time to adjust back to being real hitters again. And they need to stop complaining about the shifts - go the other way the pitch, use the field. Watch how fast pitchers start bitching to their manager about the shift when every inning they're giving up a bouncer into left field because there's no 3rd baseman.
Huge Mattingly fan here. It always killed me when Rice won the MVP over Guidry in '78 that the argument was a pitcher shouldn't win it, then Clemens wins it over Mattingly in '86. No one wants to admit they just didn't want a Yankee winning it. Hoping Veterans Committee votes him to the Hall. I tell my kids it's tough to see a Harold Baines in who was good (for yes a long time) and not Donny Baseball who was dominant, top 1-3 in league for those 6 years. And carried such professionalism and work ethic with him.
Maybe we need a stat for K'd with runner on third and less than 2 outs. I remember seeing Sheffield once say you couldn't strike him out if he didn't want you to strike him out. Someone in the comments on that clip laughed at him, pointing out that he struck out all the time... but K% doesn't show that you mostly struck out with no one on and two outs where you said screw it and swung for the fences but were able to stay alive and put the ball in play with a guy on third and trade an out for an RBI. Mattingly was great at that. Brett and Boggs too.
He's absolutely correct. "Launch angle" is leading to home runs or strikeouts (boring). Launch angle is why the Yankees can't beat the Astros. The Yankees can't manufacture runs, and high launch angle guys are always susceptible to the best pitching (playoff pitching).
As somebody said, “100% ballplayer, 0% bullshit.” Though bad luck led to no titles for him w/ the Yankees, for me and millions of others Donny Baseball will always be a champion.
Again, as I said: they won THE WORLD SERIES the year after he left. But they were winning big with him. The way you say it, it’s like his leaving is what led to them winning it all. I challenge you to find one teammate, opposing player, manager, baseball analyst or sportswriter who sees it that way. I wish you luck.
@@PabluchoViision I didn’t mean it like that. If he would have stayed another year, he’d have a ring. It sucks he retired early. He was my fave player growing up, even though I grew up a Cubs fan.
@@theclownservatarian6410 Gotcha, thanks. Sorry I misread you there. I felt a similar way growing up as a Yankee fan, about certain other teams/players. Like Weaver’s Orioles, Palmer, the Robinsons, later Murray & Ripken. The Cubs of Banks, Billy Williams, Santo. The Pirates of Clemente, Stargell, then Parker. Mays, McCovey, Bonds in SF. What a great era.
Preach Donnie B, the modern hitter is a all or nothing plate appearance. The art of hitting has taken a back seat to analytics, Billy Beane money ball nonsense.
@@Ahdhsuchhwu72 no, its because its a copycat league. One team has success now all the others will try and copy it. Why do you think we suddenly have "openers" and not starters. All it would take is a team to win for a couple of years playing old school baseball like say the 80s Cardinals or the 70s Reds and GMs would be scrambling to find those type players.
Hands down. A healthy Don Mattingly is as good as it gets. I’d take him any day a the week against these launch angle strikeout cream puff boys of today. Our superstars of today are super freaks no doubt but they pull a cuticle and there out for 12 weeks.
As a RedSox fan, I didn't like Mattingly. But I sure respect him and his knowledge. It used to be that the Mendoza line was an embarrassment because you were one of the worst hitters in the league, if not 'the' worst. Now everyday lineups for every team have at least one guy hitting below .200, sometimes I've seen 4 in the lineup. It's all about home runs now, and that's just boring. It's like watching golf to only see the long drives. Watching the Mariners/Astros go 18 innings waiting for someone to hit a tater was ridiculous. Steal? Bunt? Hit and Run? Nah, we don't want to win that bad, we just want to look good going for a 30 second jog, doing a dance and kissing the sky.
1:09 I’ve been saying this for years. But all we get is “pitchers are so much better today because of evolution” 🤦♂️. No, they’re measuring the velocity of pitches right as the ball is released now as opposed to 5-10 feet from home plate back in the day.
The thoughtful nuance in this terrific answer does not match the cantankerous nature of the title. I understand trying to get clicks, but what he said was so much more insightful than some phony controversy around launch angle or other modern performance metrics.
Launch angle has been around in a different description forever.. it’s just now players are using it through the hole AB.. which is why those players/teams don’t farewell on obp and winning..
poor donnie. yankees won the world series the year after he retired and then two years after he left as a coach. just like moose. they won the year before he got signed and the year after he retired
@@Mrgood189 LOL any great hitter? You have one example and are defending a jack ass in Don Mattingly. Facts don’t care about your feelings. Science doesn’t lie. Launch angle is real and it, along with sabermetrics, have revolutionized the sport. Like I said, it’s proven. The most successful teams are the ones most utilizing them.
@@andreareynolds6143 mattingly is a jackass but he was a great hitter. Im not going to sit here and name you every hitter that said launch angles is bs. You can look up all the interviews yourself. Lol Science does lie and is wrong very often. Hitter are worse than they have ever been if you havent noticed. Learn a thing about hitting. Every great says the same thing about launch angles: ruclips.net/video/yPXS-EyOmLA/видео.html
@@hamricmike8 same with Dale Murphy, check out his stats. And consecutive NL MVPs and a bunch of gold gloves in a row. Don and Dale just suffer cuz their teams were bad for basically all of the 80s
@@MarvinMonroe Murphy really did absolutely nothing his last 2 seasons. That hurt him big time. If he had put up even slightly below average years, cleared 400 hr's and 1000 bb's he'd be in by now. And Mattingly just retired a few years too early. The 2nd half of his career was so average that he needed to accumulate numbers to get in but I guess the back was too bad to keep going.
@@KT-ed8hj hey KT not mad at all. I see by your profile you play baseball? That rocks! Played a little back in my day. Keep following your dreams kid and stay in school and one day you’ll make it! All love ❤️
@@KT-ed8hj I have no idea who you are bro. Don’t know who your talking about buddy. Like I said, stay in school kid and keep reaching for your dreams. All love ❤️
Donnie Baseball was my hero growing up. Actually, I’m 47 and he’s still my hero.
Same. I wonder if he knows how much he's worshipped by middle aged men lmao.
I was a Cubs fan as a kid in the ‘80’s, but he was my favorite player growing up. Great hitter, esp in his prime.
Too bad he had such a bad back. How is Kirby Puckett in the HOF and he isn’t? I think if he played one more year and got that ring, maybe things would be different.
@@jeffjacobson59 Puckett has a career .318 BA, a 10-time AS in 12 seasons with a litany of Silver Slugger awards and Gold Gloves in a condensed career. He belongs.
@@theclownservatarian6410 I think his point was Mattingly also belongs, not that Puckett doesn't belong. It's debatable. It depends on people's criteria for the hall. For a couple years, Mattingly was arguably the best baseball player in the world. That should count for a lot. But his prime was short and after he got hurt he wasn't close to the same player. No championships. 1 MVP and should have won 2 in a row. Very similar career numbers to Puckett though. Puckett was good for longer and has the rings. Both had careers shortened due to injury.
I could listen to don mattingly talk about baseball all day
You’d be dumb af after that. Of course, you’d have to already be dumb to do it.
@@andreareynolds6143 you seem fun
@@chrispeerboom8300 Haha. Well I guess I’m dumb too. Agree 💯 Chris. Good stuff from Donnie Baseball
The Yankees should’ve hired Donny to be the manager.
Any Yankee fan who grew up in the 80’s loves Donnie Baseball.
There’s no way you couldn’t have.
5:10 AMEN! Let The Yankees front office know this! They have about 6 of those guys
Right on, the Yankees have a ton of players up and down the lineup - BB/HR/K, like 4 or 5 any given night, then couple that with .200 hitters. Cashmen is not this guru people make him out to be.
Not a Yankee fan but I agree they got alot of big swingers. Should've passed on Stanton.
Cashman is Not a genius, he's had access to a big checkbook for a long time. Alot of guys could've done as well or better.
Lastly, I think Mattingly was snubbed. Never liked Girardi, still don't. Boone seems like a nice guy, I would have picked Mattingly instead though.
That would be a great idea so he can leave the Marlins.
Favorite Yankee... hitman is a legend
I wasn't a Yankee fan but a New Yorker and I LOVED Don Mattingly!
The new “analytic” will be putting the ball in play
When that happens, we won't need to worry about "the shift" anymore.
It already is. The Astros, the team that maybe took analytics too far, became the best team at avoiding strikeouts.
The problem is that "analytics" also say that, from the pitching side, you should go for more strikeouts. So teams are doing both at once: trying to put the ball in play on offense, and finding pitchers who don't allow balls in play.
@@MH3GL I hear ya! Being a major league hitter not able to beat the shift should be an absolute embarrassment in the clubhouse.
I could listen to Don talk about baseball for hours.
I grew up watching Mattingly and Winfield, 2 of the best players in their era. It's a shame Mattingly had back problems, or he would have been a surefire hall of famer.
Ditto for Winfield with his back problems
They both deserve to be in the hall of fame.
@@atheistasylum Winfield is in.
Mattingly will be in hall of fame as manager
Mattingly will be in hall of fame as manager
Donnie didn't care if they threw it up around the letters he just came out of his crouch and laced one to left center. Loved watching him hit top 3 favorite Yankees
Ladies and Gentlemen, THE STATE OF MODERN BASEBALL in under 6 minutes.
I don't get it ... hitting the ball HARD ... is not the same as trying to hit the ball up and out. I'll take the Aaron and Mays versions of hitting the ball hard and let the chips fall where they may!
@@sas6561 comparisons using Hall of Famers... 👎
Launch angles = Fewer ground balls. That's a plus for any hitter.
As a Dodgers fan, Justin Turner and Chris Taylor are excellent examples of fringe players who became stars by adjusting their swings' launch angles.
@@alexchavez3383 ... LOVE! your thumbs down because I used Hall of Famers as examples!!! I guess because I can't use HOF players from your point of view, Yogi doesn't count either? 1950 Season ... 597 at bats, 28 homers, 124 rbi's, .322 ba, and 12, (TWELVE!!!) strike-outs. Wonder what kind of numbers your launch angle darlings would put up if they had just 12 strike outs for their whole season? (Oh, and do you even know all 597 at bats were without helmet protection, just Yogi wearing a cloth hat in the beanball era.)
@@sas6561 lol Ted Williams was one of the first big advocates of launch angle. You yelling me he doesn’t know how to hit?
@@Kaibat1205 not at all Kai, but keep on laughing if it makes you feel better. Since you OBVIOUSLY! have not read The Splinter's book, "The Science of Hitting", where Williams points out that the ball is travelling on a downward trajectory from higher ground and therefore the bat plane, especially on low pitches, needs to be on an upward plane to hit the ball squarely, (upward "launch angle"). Williams said "Golf the low ones" ... "Swing level at belt level" ... and "Chop down at the top of the strike zone". You obviously have not played baseball beyond high school, (if that). Mets for me, so pretty sure I have definite "work experience" over you in this conversation, but keep laughing anyway!
Before the internet made knowledge casual, having the back of a baseball card was like having some secret intel
Excellent interview.
Profoundly simple interview. Nailed it.
I could listen to him talking hitting all day!
Hall of Fame is incomplete without him!
Don didn't do too bad in that series, he hit over .400 I wish his back would have let him play a few more years, he deserved at least one trip to the series.
At least one more year, .. then he gets a Ring. But, it was his choice.
Thank you Don Mattingly! Why are these guys in the media so enthralled in changing baseball. It’si work for over 100 years so what it’s not a TV sport. Go to a game there is 81 of them. Tired of the mainstream media and wanting humans to be in front of the TV 24/7
because those in the media feel they have to put their mark on the game full well knowing that's the only way they'll ever be remembered.
Bc baseball is boring af and kids don't want to watch or play it
Who knew that Steve Balboni was such a trailblazer? .230, 150 SO, 30 HR, 45 BB... and I'll bet his launch angle was *great.*
That's not enough walks for 150 K's. Mickey Tettleton is really the guy.
@@UpTheDown7 Yes! He's a better example. Poor Balboni getting the short end again...
Or what about Dave Kingman or Adam Dunn? I was intrigued when Mattingly said your have a guy on third with less than two outs, and your team can't get the run home, because everyone is swinging for the fences; yet, the run at third base is the winning run.
I still prefer the Ty Cobb, Rod Carew, Wade Boggs approach to hitting and advancing the runners on base, where batting averages mean something, as those hitters wear out the pitchers.
Dave Kingman, Steve Balboni, Rob Deer, Adam Dunn baseball is strikeouts, walks and home runs. Yet, the home run may occur, when your team is already leading 6 - 1. This, that particular home run is irrelevant and does not matter.
@@jkrasney1 Kingman walked at about the same rate as Balboni. Deer walked more but still not nearly enough to warrant a '3-true outcome' label. Dunn is a disciple, he just retired a few years ago so way too recent. The guy who did it before Tettleton was Darrell Evans but his strikeout numbers weren't insane like today's players so the best comparison really is Tettleton.
@@jkrasney1 I'm with you, definitely. The first time I saw a middle infielder lift his leg, Sadaharu-style, and swing for the fences on a two-strike count I knew we were in for a rough patch of MLB meta.
He just described the current yankees roster at the end there.
Don Mattingly deserves more recognition
and to no one's surprise, at no point does donny baseball say he doesnt buy into launch angle
Grew up in the Bronx. Enjoyed the P.A.L free Yankee tickets to see Donny baseball. Hopefully he can get a WS ring as a manager 🤞🏽. Just a great player to watch back in the days.
"Donnie Baseball" is a legend.
Believe it or not, there was a season when Don Mattingly played just about the entire season and only struck out 21 times. I’m very surprised DP didn’t ask Donnie about his struggles against former Cleveland Indian pitcher Greg Swindell
Turns out he knows a lot more about baseball than me lol
Miggy agrees. Launch angle ? What is launch angle? See the ball hit the ball.
Mattingly is describing the Cubs perfectly. Too many guys who strike out a lot
Sounds like the current Yankees also.
The whole league a joke homerun or strikeout
Omg strike outs don't matter.
Pick up a analytics for dummies, page 2
It is still weird not seeing Mattingly with that glorious moustache.
Not many true hitters like this out there anymore. You don't see guys that win batting titles who also lead the league in doubles and RBIs all at the same time. What could have been if he didn't injure his back.
True.
If he didn't come back too soon and had taken a season off like Dave Winfield did.
@@dangelo1369 maybe. The fact Winfield took a season off is very telling because Winfield was a player who played hurt and never took a day off unless it was given to him.
And win consecutive Gold Gloves. The 2nd most for a 1st baseman.
I'm here to read the RUclips commenters who explain why Don Freaking Mattingly is wrong.
Now that was a very interesting interview.
Don Mattingly and Mike Trout, two of the greats, Donnie SO'd 444 times in his career, Trout, 1279 and counting. Mattingly has also played 400 more games.
Mike Trout 378 home runs, Don Mattingly 222, and Mattingly played 400 more games. Mike Trout 212 stolen bases, Don Mattingly 14, and Mattingly played 400 more games. Mike Trout career war 86, Don Mattingly 42, and guess wha, Don Mattingly played 400 more games.
@@jasont7814 I'm not comparing who is better, its clearly Trout, Im talking about striking out. However, if you want to take an interesting look at them statistically, compare Donnie 84-89 and Trout 14-19, both the best 6 year stretches of their careers. Trout is a better player but not across the board
@@drewskij2175 Yes, I thought you choosing just one metric for comparison was interesting, as they are completely different players. I’d agree Donnie has a good case for being in the HoF.
oh wow I could have bet that was actor Chris Cooper. I still think he's the Dodger manager in my mind,
No he's still the high school kid in Evansville with the perfect swing
I'm seeing more Kurt Russell
Having several of those high strikeout power hitters is exasperating. Back in 1991, Detroit had Rob Deer (175) and Pete Incaviglia (92) in the lineup.
That, along with Cecil Fielder (151), Travis Fryman (149), and Mickey Tettleton (131) made for a long season of strikeouts or home runs, with litttle else. Oh, and Tony Phillips with 95.
As a team:
1185 strikeouts.
209 Home runs.
817 quiet (or noisy, depending on how you look at it) runs...
They won 84 games, but weren't really all that exciting to watch. I hate all or nothing Baseball.
What a player. I remember when Billy started playing him in the OF in 1983, just to get his bat in the lineup. Next year he hit .343 and won the batting title.
I can't believe it's been nearly five years!
Donnie just described the 2021 Yankees in a nutshell
The only reason the "launch angle" approach worked the last few years is because of the juiced ball. Ball travels further in the air, hit the ball in the air. But now those same shots are popping up 20 feet short of the fence because they de-juiced the ball. Time to adjust back to being real hitters again. And they need to stop complaining about the shifts - go the other way the pitch, use the field. Watch how fast pitchers start bitching to their manager about the shift when every inning they're giving up a bouncer into left field because there's no 3rd baseman.
For the last time mattingly ….GET RID OF THOSE SIDEBURNS!!!
Huge Mattingly fan here. It always killed me when Rice won the MVP over Guidry in '78 that the argument was a pitcher shouldn't win it, then Clemens wins it over Mattingly in '86. No one wants to admit they just didn't want a Yankee winning it. Hoping Veterans Committee votes him to the Hall. I tell my kids it's tough to see a Harold Baines in who was good (for yes a long time) and not Donny Baseball who was dominant, top 1-3 in league for those 6 years. And carried such professionalism and work ethic with him.
Ted Williams was a launch angle enthusiast
How so? Never read the book... Some insight, very curious.
Yeah, but that was Ted Williams. One of a kind talent.
If he was born with shoulders, he would’ve been the best to ever play.
Donnie is a HOF guy 4 sure / could flat out hit and field
good to hear donnies take... one of the best!
ima have to look thru my old baseball cards now
Maybe we need a stat for K'd with runner on third and less than 2 outs. I remember seeing Sheffield once say you couldn't strike him out if he didn't want you to strike him out. Someone in the comments on that clip laughed at him, pointing out that he struck out all the time... but K% doesn't show that you mostly struck out with no one on and two outs where you said screw it and swung for the fences but were able to stay alive and put the ball in play with a guy on third and trade an out for an RBI. Mattingly was great at that. Brett and Boggs too.
He's absolutely correct. "Launch angle" is leading to home runs or strikeouts (boring). Launch angle is why the Yankees can't beat the Astros. The Yankees can't manufacture runs, and high launch angle guys are always susceptible to the best pitching (playoff pitching).
As somebody said, “100% ballplayer, 0% bullshit.” Though bad luck led to no titles for him w/ the Yankees, for me and millions of others Donny Baseball will always be a champion.
Yanks won the year after he left.
Again, as I said: they won THE WORLD SERIES the year after he left. But they were winning big with him. The way you say it, it’s like his leaving is what led to them winning it all. I challenge you to find one teammate, opposing player, manager, baseball analyst or sportswriter who sees it that way. I wish you luck.
@@PabluchoViision I didn’t mean it like that. If he would have stayed another year, he’d have a ring. It sucks he retired early. He was my fave player growing up, even though I grew up a Cubs fan.
@@theclownservatarian6410 Gotcha, thanks. Sorry I misread you there. I felt a similar way growing up as a Yankee fan, about certain other teams/players. Like Weaver’s Orioles, Palmer, the Robinsons, later Murray & Ripken. The Cubs of Banks, Billy Williams, Santo. The Pirates of Clemente, Stargell, then Parker. Mays, McCovey, Bonds in SF. What a great era.
@@PabluchoViision Mattingly, Eddie Murray and Big Mac were my faves. Funny how they were all AL players.
Yes yes yes YES LINE DRIVES THE BEST HITTERS ALWAYS SAY TOP OF THE BALL, LET YOUR STRENGTH GUIDE YOU LINE DRIVES LINE DRIVES LINE GOD DAMN DRIVES
Donnie needs to grow back the Stash...will never get used to him without it!
One of the best to do it
He doesn't believe in launch angles because he never hit that many homeruns.
Three straight years over 30.
@@bauerj3398 all the great homerun hitters had launch angles.
Dude what? Before his injury the guy was averaging 28 home runs per 162 game season. Wtf are you smoking?
Preach Donnie B, the modern hitter is a all or nothing plate appearance. The art of hitting has taken a back seat to analytics, Billy Beane money ball nonsense.
Theres a reason all the teams do it, its bc it works
@@Ahdhsuchhwu72 no, its because its a copycat league. One team has success now all the others will try and copy it. Why do you think we suddenly have "openers" and not starters.
All it would take is a team to win for a couple of years playing old school baseball like say the 80s Cardinals or the 70s Reds and GMs would be scrambling to find those type players.
People act like 97 mph means anything anymore. If everyone throws 97, 97 isn’t significant. More velo = balls hit farther.
Hands down. A healthy Don Mattingly is as good as it gets. I’d take him any day a the week against these launch angle strikeout cream puff boys of today. Our superstars of today are super freaks no doubt but they pull a cuticle and there out for 12 weeks.
Mattingly, Puckett, Brett, Murray, Ripken. I loved the AL of that era
Donny Baseball is speaking some truth.
As a RedSox fan, I didn't like Mattingly. But I sure respect him and his knowledge. It used to be that the Mendoza line was an embarrassment because you were one of the worst hitters in the league, if not 'the' worst. Now everyday lineups for every team have at least one guy hitting below .200, sometimes I've seen 4 in the lineup. It's all about home runs now, and that's just boring. It's like watching golf to only see the long drives. Watching the Mariners/Astros go 18 innings waiting for someone to hit a tater was ridiculous. Steal? Bunt? Hit and Run? Nah, we don't want to win that bad, we just want to look good going for a 30 second jog, doing a dance and kissing the sky.
You need a Whit Merrifield and a John Olerud guy in every lineup to win. Very simple. Gimme Olerud any day.
1:09 I’ve been saying this for years. But all we get is “pitchers are so much better today because of evolution” 🤦♂️. No, they’re measuring the velocity of pitches right as the ball is released now as opposed to 5-10 feet from home plate back in the day.
"was that when he was in Montreal?" That made zero sense. First of, Don said it was 95 playoffs and secondly Montreal is NL
What does Don Mattingly know about hitting?😁😁😁😁
Donnie Beisbol is always a good interview.
Baseball?
@@boejiden876 You weren't the only one who thought it. Maybe the only one who wrote it, but u certainly weren't the only who thought it. 😆
Hit man... legend
35HR 120+RBI .340+
Only strikes out like 45 times a year.
❤Put Don in the HOF, love Donnie Baseball ⚾⚾⚾⚾❤❤❤❤
Dan Patrick talks like interleague play was around during Mattingly's career. Sheesh.
Why is he not mgr? Of Yankees
Cashman is a dope thats why
Want him and a new GM for the Yankees.
The thoughtful nuance in this terrific answer does not match the cantankerous nature of the title. I understand trying to get clicks, but what he said was so much more insightful than some phony controversy around launch angle or other modern performance metrics.
100% correct Donnie.
Launch angle has been around in a different description forever.. it’s just now players are using it through the hole AB.. which is why those players/teams don’t farewell on obp and winning..
i wonder if his perspective has changed at all
Donnie Baseball - 100% baseball; 0% bullshit - Bill James...
My fav Yankee, not being a Yankees fan. Hall of Famer in my book.
poor donnie. yankees won the world series the year after he retired and then two years after he left as a coach. just like moose. they won the year before he got signed and the year after he retired
He is so fucking cool
This wasn’t Dan’s best interview. Kind of weird question succession, and interrupts more than I’d like. And Randy in Montreal in 1995? Cmon Dan.
People love to talk crap about launch angle even though the science behind it is proven.
STOP THE MADNESS! All that matters is did it go over the fence.
Wonder if he still thinks that
Glad he finally shaved his sideburns.
Marlins 26th in the league in homeruns, 20th in runs scored, and last place in NL east. Maybe he should reconsider ....
Or maybe he’s managing the Marlins
AMEN...
I was wishing for Ohtani to have his launch angle higher. He had it fixed this year, and boom!
People who really know about baseball...... Dont believe in launch angles
Lol terrible take. Every team that has participated in the World Series as of late is largely known as those that use analytics the most.
@@andreareynolds6143 listen to any great hitter talk about 'launch angles" and they say its BS. Miguel Cabrera laughed at it
@@Mrgood189 LOL any great hitter? You have one example and are defending a jack ass in Don Mattingly. Facts don’t care about your feelings. Science doesn’t lie. Launch angle is real and it, along with sabermetrics, have revolutionized the sport. Like I said, it’s proven. The most successful teams are the ones most utilizing them.
@@andreareynolds6143 mattingly is a jackass but he was a great hitter. Im not going to sit here and name you every hitter that said launch angles is bs. You can look up all the interviews yourself. Lol Science does lie and is wrong very often. Hitter are worse than they have ever been if you havent noticed.
Learn a thing about hitting. Every great says the same thing about launch angles:
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@Philippians 44 sir amazing comment and an ever better account name
Mattingly always being politically correct about modern baseball.
It's a complete joke he's not in the HoF and I was Reds and NL fan I never rooted for the Yankees
Fred McGriff should be in there too. Just look at his career numbers
@@hamricmike8 same with Dale Murphy, check out his stats. And consecutive NL MVPs and a bunch of gold gloves in a row. Don and Dale just suffer cuz their teams were bad for basically all of the 80s
@@MarvinMonroe Murphy really did absolutely nothing his last 2 seasons. That hurt him big time. If he had put up even slightly below average years, cleared 400 hr's and 1000 bb's he'd be in by now. And Mattingly just retired a few years too early. The 2nd half of his career was so average that he needed to accumulate numbers to get in but I guess the back was too bad to keep going.
Love don but injuries unfortunately derailed his career and statistically isn’t close to a HOFer
Can't these guys we are talking about still get in the Hall by the veteran's committee or something? I don't remember how that works exactly?
MATTINGLY! I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO TRIM THOSE SIDEBURNS!
GO HOME! YOU’RE OFF THE TEAM! FOR GOOD!
😂 " I still like him better than Steinbrenner " . 🤣
By now, 2021, He believes in launch angle.......pretty sure he believes now!
@@bbarnes654 it’s too bad you’re too dumb to understand it. It’s ok, people smarter than you are doing the work
What a dinosaur 🦕
Looks at Marlins record…..ahh seems right
Lmao you mad bud?
@@KT-ed8hj hey KT not mad at all. I see by your profile you play baseball? That rocks! Played a little back in my day. Keep following your dreams kid and stay in school and one day you’ll make it! All love ❤️
@@thatstrengthcoachrichie6747 ya i know you did mr. 1 for 20 with 15 k's. I am older than you so it's funny to hear you call me kid. Nice try
@@KT-ed8hj I have no idea who you are bro. Don’t know who your talking about buddy. Like I said, stay in school kid and keep reaching for your dreams. All love ❤️
@@thatstrengthcoachrichie6747 HAHAHAHAHA
Im tired of this analytic era already. It has it’s merits but it’s too much. Play the damn game and stop with the number crap.
Sports talk sucks
Then don’t listen to or watch it.....jackass
Mattingly is one of the purest and best hitters to ever play the game! Him and Keith Hernandez deserve to be in the HOF!!
Next Yankees manager???? 🙏