Mattingly as a player was fantastic, but he is as dumb as a box of hammers. The trend is for intelligent managers in MLB. Clubs are more interested in your GPA in college than your career batting average. It is no accident that two of the best, Girardi and Maddon, are graduates of Northwestern and Lafayette respectively.
“Mattingly as a player was fantastic, but he is as dumb as a box of hammers”
Yes.
Astonishingly dumb.