It takes a special type of person to manage in a city like LA – and getting this years Dodgers team to 92 wins might recede down as Mattingly’s greatest featIf Don Mattingly doesn’t want to manage the Miami Marlins or the Washington Nationals,or any of the other teams that believe openings, he has a future in crisis management. For the last five years all he has done is deftly handle chaos.
Few men in baseball could believe navigated the ordeals that swirled around Mattingly as he ran the Los Angeles Dodgers. In his brief time as the team’s manager he withstood an ownership collapse, and a team sale,the random addition of several declining players with massive contracts, a barren bullpen, or the stubbornness of Matt Kemp,a original general manager with a completely original philosophy, and three years of Yasiel Puig.
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Source: theguardian.com