Don Mattingly to Become Next Los Angeles Dodgers Manager

According to Tim Brown of Yahoo! Sports, Joe Torre will soon announce that he is stepping down as manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and he will be replaced at the helm by former Yankee captain Don Mattingly.

It has been assumed for years that Mattingly would eventually take over for Torre, but most imagined that it would happen in the Bronx.

But when Torre left the Yankees after the 2007 season, the Yankees and their ownership were wowed by Joe Girardi, and he snatched the job from Donnie Baseball.

Mattingly then followed Torre to the Dodgers because he knew that if he stuck around and Girardi got off to a slow start, the ...

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