Randy Wolf News

With bench coach Brad Mills now in Houston as the new Manager, the Red Sox have made some coaching changes yesterday: Extra Bases - The Boston Red Sox today announced their 2010 Major League coaching staff.

This is the fourth in a series of positional analyses heading into Friday's start of the free-agent shopping season.

It's the time of year in baseball for courting and bluffing -- sometimes simultaneously.

This is not a good time to need to overhaul your rotation with a major assist from the free-agent market.

Rare is the year when the Dodgers lack quality starting pitching. But they might have to delve heavily into the free-agent market to maintain that asset.

Yesterday, we covered where the top 12 hitters in the free agent market would land.

The Dodgers have most of what it takes to enter, or even win, the World Series. But they need to be more "clutch." FanGraphs had them ranked first in National League teams in raw hitting ability for 2009.

Carlos Zambrano's batting average came back to Earth, but he didn't stop slugging.

Per MLB.com , Tony Reagins has signed a new three-year deal. Let's hope for more ninja deals... In the Times : Six front-office employees who were hired by former Dodgers vice president Charles Steinberg were fired.

First, this reminder : 1) Rumors are not facts. 2) Teams and agents often float rumors to generate attention or to misdirect rivals.

Not to rush the season or anything, but the Mets may begin their Holliday shopping forthwith.

Pitcher Randy Wolf led a group of six Dodgers filing for free agency on Thursday, the first day of the two-week filing period.

The timing could not have been more perfect. A day before the Rocky Mount Senior High School class of 1979 gathered to celebrate its 30th reunion, a time capsule the former classmates had buried as ninth-graders finally was unearthed.

They never talked about it. Neither saw a reason to. Four years after Jayson Werth's wrist was shattered and his career thrown into limbo by a pitch from A.J. Burnett in an exhibition game, he will step into the batter's box in Game 2 of the World Series to face the hard-throwing right-hander with plenty at stake.

Prior to his postseason at-bats, Ryan Howard slides into a head-bowed, eyes-shut meditative trance designed to visualize positive performance.

Key offseason issues facing the Dodgers: Manager: Joe Torre completed his second year with the Dodgers and has said 2010 will be his final season.

There were two out in the first inning in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series, and Jayson Werth, waiting in the on-deck circle, had work to do.

Jonathan Broxton imploded in the bottom of the 9th Monday night, giving up a walk, hitting a batter, then giving up a two-out double to Jimmy Rollins that scored the tying and winning runs and put the Phillies one victory away from eliminating the Dodgers for the second consecutive year.

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Randy Wolf hands the ball to manager Joe Torre after being relieved in the sixth inning of Game 4 of the National League Championship baseball series against the Philadelphia Phillies Monday, Oct.

Can Giants fans anticipate a Dodgers collapse next year? The answer might be delivered by divorce lawyers.