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In his long-awaited first trip to the World Series, Don Mattingly came up crushingly short of winning a title on Saturday with the Blue Jays.

But the former Yankees great and current Toronto bench coach will have another shot at a different top honor before this year is over.

Mattingly was announced on Monday as part of the eight-person player ballot to be considered by the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

The results of the vote — needing 75 percent from the ballots cast by a 16-person group that will be announced later this fall — will be revealed on Dec. 7. Voters can select up to three players.

The seven players joining Mattingly on the ballot are Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Carlos Delgado, Jeff Kent, Dale Murphy, Gary Sheffield and Fernando Valenzuela.

Mattingly was also on this committee’s most recent ballot in 2022, but did not receive the requisite votes — he ranked second with eight votes, needing 12 — as Fred McGriff gained induction that year. In his 15 years on the BBWAA ballot, Mattingly peaked at 28.2 percent of the vote in his first year of eligibility in 2001, well short of the 75 percent required.

Across his 14-year career with the Yankees, Mattingly hit .307 with a .830 OPS and 222 home runs. He won the 1985 AL MVP, the 1984 AL batting title (hitting .343), nine Gold Gloves at first base and was a six-time All-Star and three-time Silver Slugger. His career was derailed late by a chronic back injury, forcing him to retire after the 1995 campaign, just before the Yankees reemerged as a dynasty.

Mattingly, who went on to manage the Dodgers and Marlins, finally earned his first trip to the World Series last month on the Blue Jays staff, though they squandered a 3-2 series lead and fell to the Dodgers in a heartbreaking Game 7 on Saturday night.

The Contemporary Baseball Era — featuring candidates whose primary contributions came since 1980 — is split into two different ballots for players (this year) and managers, executives and umpires (set to be voted on next year). The Classic Baseball Era Committee, which accounts for candidates whose primary contributions came before 1980, will next vote in 2027.

Beginning this year, any candidate who appears on a ballot and does not receive votes from at least five of 16 voters will be ineligible to appear on the next ballot three years later. A candidate that does not receive at least five of 16 votes on multiple ballots will not be eligible for future ballot consideration.