Los Angeles Dodgers appoints Pat Corrales special assistant to GM Ned Colletti – MLB Update
The Los Angeles Dodgers management has appointed Pat Corrales special assistant to team general manager Ned Colletti for a bigger vision to bring the baseball franchise as a more vibrant competitor in the next Major League Baseball seasons.
“We are very happy to have Pat join us, His vast experience, especially from his years in Atlanta and Washington, will be a great strength to our organization. He will assist us in a variety of ways, including evaluating our player-development system and helping us at the Major League level. I have known Pat for a long time," Colletti said in a release and expressed his feeling on new special assistant.
Corrales, a highly experienced Major League individual, knows the real trick of the trade as this will benefit the Dodgers in the coming seasons.
Corrales is a former Washington Nationals' bench coach possesses extraordinary knowledge and skills which are highly required in any franchise who wants to become the World Series Champions.
“I’m leaving a good organization, It’s time I moved on. I worked with some good people – Rizzo, [director of player development] Doug Harris, the Lerners. It’s a great organization. … It was tough decision, but I made it,” Corrales said.
Dodgers' current Chief Executive Organisation (CEO) Stan Kasten has also a long relationship with Corrales as he was then the Nationals' team president when Corrales served in Washington and Atlanta Braves’ franchises.
Sources say that this same past relation is the main reason why Kasten brought Corrales’ back into the organisation as Dodgers CEO knows that his former mate will bring the right kind of strategies in the franchise in next few months ahead of 2013 Spring Training.
Corrales has a large experience in the league as a player and as professional manager.
Starting his career in 1964 as a Major League player, Corrales went onto play for the St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Red and San Diego Padres.
On the other hand, he started his managerial career in 1978 when he became Texas Rangers’ manager. Later he managed Philadelphia Phillies and Cleveland Indians as well.
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