Blue Jays bench coach Don Mattingly departs team after 3 seasons
Posted November 6, 2025 10:56 am.
Last Updated November 7, 2025 5:24 am.
The Toronto Blue Jays suddenly have a vacancy at bench coach.
Don Mattingly, 64, has departed the team after three seasons on the coaching staff, the baseball club announced on Thursday.
The New York Post’s Jon Heyman was the first to report on the news. According to Jim Salisbury of PHLY Sports, the Philadelphia Phillies have expressed an interest in Mattingly as the club’s new bench coach.
General manager Ross Atkins told reporters that additional changes to the coaching staff are not expected, indicating that a group consisting of associate manager DeMarlo Hale, hitting coach Dave Popkins, pitching coach Pete Walker, first base coach Mark Budzinski and third base coach Carlos Febles, to name a few, will return next season.
Mattingly joined the Blue Jays in November 2022, first hired as bench coach. Ahead of the 2024 season, Mattingly assumed the title of offensive coordinator, overseeing the team’s hitting coaches and video coordinator.
He transitioned back to bench coach in 2025, helping guide the Blue Jays to a 94-win season, a pennant, and the club’s first World Series appearance since 1993, as well as Mattingly’s first-ever World Series stop.
Before joining the Blue Jays, Mattingly managed the Los Angeles Dodgers and Miami Marlins for 12 combined seasons, making the postseason on four separate occasions (three times with the Dodgers and once with the Marlins). He was recognized as the NL Manager of the Year in 2020 with the Marlins.
Mattingly played 14 years in the majors, all with the New York Yankees. He was a six-time All-Star, the MVP in 1985, and a nine-time Gold Glove winner.
