The team had a 78-83 Pythagorean win-loss record.In 2017, the team went 77-85 with a matching Pythagorean record.Don Mattingly didn't have the best rosters to work with, but he also didn't do much to take the team to the next level.This of course implies that the team did worse than expected.At this point you could say that he simply didn't take the team to the next level.It seems that outside of a shortened season he just didn't take the team to the next level, it wasn't all his fault but he typically underperformed as compared to expectations.
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