Preston Mattingly and Don Mattingly are related by blood.
Preston Mattingly is an American former baseball player.
He is the second son of Don Mattingly and his ex-wife, Kim Sexton.
Preston’s father Don Mattingly is an American former professional baseball first baseman and coach. He is the current manager for the Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball.
In the 2006 MLB draft, the Los Angeles Dodgers chose Preston in the supplemental round (31st overall). Four years later, he was traded to the Cleveland Indians on September 26, 2010.
At the end of spring training, the Indians released him, and he re-signed with the Dodgers. The Yankees signed Preston on January 11, 2012, to a minor league contract, but he was ultimately released three months later.
Preston went to Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. From 2014 to 2015, he was a starting guard for the Lamar Cardinals basketball team, an NCAA Division I program in the Southland Conference.
Preston Mattingly is currently the new director of player development at the Phillies.
Before joining Phillies, he served as the San Diego Padres’ coordinator of major league advance scouting and game planning. Previously, he had been the club’s manager of scouting.