Dodgers Refuse To Give Nats Permission To Interview Don Mattingly

Jim Bowden, former Nats GM, tweets that the Dodgers management will not grant the Nationals permission to interview Don Mattingly:

Let’s see: He’d rather remain a bench coach for a few years and then take over a successful baseball team instead of potentially taking over the Nationals right now? Yeah, sounds about right.

The Nationals, fresh off their second straight 100-loss season, are searching for the right manager to turn the ship around, which is a tall, if not impossible, order.

If he’s excited about Jordan Zimmerman, who is having Tommy John surgery, wait until he gets a load of this Steven Strasburg guy. No way, he’ll pass up the job then. Unless, of course, he takes a look at the rest of the Nats pitchers.