Don Mattingly’s work with the Blue Jays is done, but he sees the potential for great things on the horizon.

“The last two years I played in New York, in ‘94 and ‘95, the teams felt like this,” said the Jays’ outgoing bench coach in a conversation for Thursday’s episode of “Deep Left Field,” the Star’s baseball podcast.

“It was guys who loved playing together, it was a great group of guys who played the game right. And as those other young players were coming up, they were all getting a taste of that.”

Those other young players, of course, would wind up forming the core of a Yankees team that won four World Series in five years following Mattingly’s retirement as a player after the 1995 season.

“I think the next group in the culture that this group set this year has a chance to t

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