HBT: Utley is Mattingly, and not in a good way

Chase Utley has had an amazing career. And now it looks like it is being derailed in a major way due to injuries. And, as Dash Treyhorn notes over at The Good Phight, we?ve seen this before:

Don Mattingly was really, really good for the latter half of the 80s. After that, it all went downhill ??Like Mattingly, Utley?s reign lasted six years, from 2005 to 2010, when he hit .298/.388/.523 with 162 homers and 572 RBIs in 869 games.

Treyhorn notes in an extended assessment of each of their careers that Utley is much older than Mattingly was when his injury-induced slide began, but the parallels are pretty striking otherwise. ?As are the likely Hall of Fame implications.

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