You won't have ol' Donnie Two-Times to kick around anymore.
Don Mattingly and the Los Angeles Dodgers have agreed to see other people. The manager for the Dodgers for the last five years is leaving, with the decision being described as mutual according to CBS' Jon Heyman.
It's hard to know if this is a good thing or a bad thing for the Giants, not yet. While Mattingly's decision-making was often hilarious and Giants-friendly, the real value of a manager is in the clubhouse and getting players through an interminable slog of a season. I don't know how well Mattingly did that.