Don Mattingly said he has noticed a little “twinge of jealousy.” It’s the final week of the Major League Baseball season and a slew of teams — the Atlanta Braves, Philadelphia Phillies and basically the entire American League East except for the Orioles among them — are going down to the wire trying to clinch playoff spots.
The Miami Marlins, the team Mattingly manages, is not one of those teams. The fourth year of the Marlins’ rebuild brought forth under the Bruce Sherman and Derek Jeter ownership group will end with a losing record.