Don Mattingly’s latest chance of being enshrined in Cooperstown will come Sunday night.
which the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee will vote on. The results will be announced at 8 p.m. on Sunday at MLB’s Winter Meetings in San Diego.
“It’s a desire [to be a Hall of Famer],” Mattingly said earlier this week on “The Show with Joel Sherman and Jon Heyman” podcast. “I think every player, it would be something that if you felt like you knew you’ve done enough. Obviously people look at it as being on the borderline, right? There’s people that voted for you, people that didn’t, different committees put you on and things like that. So obviously you’re one of those guys that’s on the borderline.
The former Yankees captain was a lifetime .307 hitter with 2,153 hits, 222 home runs, 1,099 RBIs and a .830 OPS.AP Photo/Jon Durr, File. His nine Gold Gloves are the second-most of any player at the position, trailing only former Mets star Keith Hernandez , who has also been left out of Cooperstown to date.
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