Dave Roberts will be the new manager of the Dodgers. Jake Roth-USA TODAY Sports
The Los Angeles Dodgers hired 43-year-old former outfielder Dave Roberts to replace Don Mattingly as the team’s manager, as first reported by the Los Angeles Times and confirmed by numerous other sources late Sunday.
The Dodgers are expected to make the hire official Monday.
Roberts joined the Padres’ staff in 2011 as first base coach and worked the past two seasons as San Diego’s bench coach.
Mattingly left via mutual agreement with the Dodgers after five seasons, and he subsequently took the manager’s job with the Miami Marlins.
Roberts played for the Dodgers from 2002-04. He also played for the Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, Padres and San Francisco Giants before concluding his journeyman career in 2008.
For his career, he hit .266 hitter with 243 steals, the most well-known of which occurred in the 2004 American League Championship Series while with Boston against the New York Yankees.
Roberts pinch-ran in the ninth inning of Game 4 and scored the tying run. His play sparked the Red Sox to an extra-inning win, and Boston rallied to become the first team in major league history to overcome a 3-0 deficit and win a postseason series.
