Don Mattingly Draft Pick

The new york yankee s first pick in the mlb draft was high schooler austin wells a lefty slugger who s a catcher first baseman and a left fielder.

Don mattingly draft pick.

In 1987 mattingly tied dale long s record set in 1956 hitting a home run in eight consecutive games ken griffey jr. He soon had developed a name for himself. But it was one american legion baseball game that convinced don that he was a baseball player. Don mattingly was so lightly regarded in baseball coming out of reitz memorial high school in his hometown of evansville indiana that he wasn t drafted until the 19th round 15 rounds after.

First baseman and outfielder bats. Here is what don mattingly said one spring training morning in jupiter fla when it was all ahead of him with the marlins and he was talking about the clean slate he d been given by his boss another former captain of the yankees you may have heard of named derek jeter. Later also tied this mark in 1993. He isn t going to stay at catcher in my opinion for the yankees.

Drafted by the new york yankees in the 19th round of the 1979 mlb june amateur draft from reitz memorial hs evansville in. Don a freshman hit two doubles off the star. Mattingly is ambidextrous he pitched in little league baseball and was a first baseman also throwing both right handed and left handed and was a member of the 1973 great scott little league championship team in evansville indiana under the coaching of pete studer and earl hobbs in american legion baseball for funkhouser post 8 mattingly played at second. Taylor mattingly a former yankees draft pick faces charges of.

He didn t finally make it to october after playing with a bad back in the late innings of his career until 1995 when the yankees got in as a wild card and lost an unforgettable five game american league division series to ken griffey jr edgar martinez and the mariners. In a 1976 game against the neighboring town of owensboro kentucky he faced a pitcher who was the cincinnati reds top draft pick that year. Reitz memorial hs evansville in. Don mattingly s son has been busted by police in evansville ind on charges that he shoved his mother and spit in her face.

The yankees initially attempted to draft him in the 35th round of the 2018 mlb draft out of high school meaning that picking him again shows they really like this kid and i do too. Mattingly was originally signed as a 19th round pick in the 1979 amateur draft by the yankees and scouts jax robertson and gus poulos. April 20 1961 in evansville in us. Playing career amateur career.