Daily News | Playing college basketball at age 26 taught Phillies’ Preston Mattingly how to build a culture
CLEARWATER, Fla. — Preston Mattingly doesn’t like to lose, and he can prove it. On a sunny afternoon, just outside of the Phillies’ spring training facility in Clearwater, Fla., he points to three scars — one above his eye, one along his eyebrow, and one just below his lip.
Going to college, at that stage of his life, wasn’t an exciting prospect, but he’d come to realize it was a necessary one. After retiring as a minor league player, Mattingly briefly had a job with Gabe Kapler, who was working at a tech company called Egraphs. He always got the sense that his friend had taken a chance on him, because he didn’t have his college degree. That feeling did not sit well, so he called his father to talk about it.
“I was like, this is my moment!” Mattingly said, with a grin. “It took them about 30 minutes to clean it up, which was actually good for me, because I could go back to the locker room and patch up my nose and play.” “I made sure they knew why we were doing this,” he said. “It was about the future. At a mid-major school like Lamar, the margins were so thin. Things that seem like that they’re so far from basketball, end up being about basketball. Say you’re late to class. Well, if you’re going to be late to class, are you going to be late to a rotation on defense?
“They didn’t know my dad wasn’t when I got drafted, so they probably assumed, ‘Preston’s here because of his dad,’” he said.
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