Don Mattingly addressed the media yesterday for the first time since the Winter Meetings. I posted a bunch of videos from his interviews here. My story about the impending center-field competition is here.

Mattingly addressed a number of topics after my video recorder ran out of memory, or unfit for print. One was the catcher position.

A.J. Ellis is the incumbent starter. He re-signed with the Dodgers on Wednesday. Mattingly talked to Ellis at the park and the topic of 2015 playing time came up. Newcomer Yasmani Grandal, a switch-hitter acquired in the Tim Federowicz trade with the San Diego Padres, will certainly platoon with Ellis if both players are healthy.

According to Mattingly, Ellis is OK with that.

“Talking with A.J. yesterday, knowing that could be a sticky situation, his first response was ‘I just want to win’,” Mattingly said.

Mattingly didn’t say how the two catchers would split time exactly. Even if Ellis only starts against left-handed pitchers and Grandal against righties — a platoon the stats for each player would support — Mattingly might not publicly commit to that platoon right away.

Another popular theory goes like this: Ellis will catch Clayton Kershaw since the two are close. Grandal will catch everyone else. Mattingly wouldn’t commit to that, either.

“I’m not really comfortable any time that we talk about just one guy catching a certain pitcher anytime, because it really gets you caught in the middle,” Mattingly said. “I can’t say that I really favor that. The catching situation, we’ll work it out.”

I’ll post more tidbits from Mattingly’s scrum later today.