DODGERS NOTEBOOK: COLLETTI BALKS ON '07 TALKS.Byline: TONY JACKSON
Anthony (Antonio) Jackson, best known as Tony Jackson Staff Writer SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. -- Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti Ned Louis Colletti, Jr. is the General Manager for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Colletti graduated from East Leyden High School in Franklin Park, Illinois and Northern Illinois University. Colletti began his Major League Career in 1982 with the Chicago Cubs. said this week he won't discuss contract extensions with any of the club's seven potential free agents during the season. Asked if that was because the Dodgers are in a pennant race or simply a standard philosophy of his, Colletti said, ``A little bit of both.'' The Dodgers could lose some combination of pitchers Eric Gagne, Greg Maddux Gregory Alan Maddux (born April 14, 1966) is a pitcher for the San Diego Padres. He was the first pitcher in Major League history to win the Cy Young Award for four consecutive years (1992-1995), during which he had a 75-29 record with a 1. and Aaron Sele Aaron Helmer Sele (born June 25, 1970 in Golden Valley, Minnesota) is an MLB right-handed pitcher who plays for the New York Mets. His family moved to Poulsbo, Washington, a Scandinavian town on the Kitsap Peninsula, where Aaron pitched for North Kitsap High School. ; first baseman Nomar Garciaparra Anthony Nomar Garciaparra[1] (born July 23, 1973, in Whittier, California) is a Mexican-American baseball player who currently plays third base for the Los Angeles Dodgers. ; infielders Julio Lugo Julio Cesar Lugo (born on November 16, 1975 in Barahona, Dominican Republic) is a major league shortstop for the Boston Red Sox. He bats and throws right-handed. Lugo is the older brother of baseball pitcher Ruddy Lugo. and Ramon Martinez Ramon Martinez is the name of several people:
The club plans to exercise the $1 million buyout on Gagne's $12 million option for next season, but Gagne said Tuesday he wants to stay with the Dodgers and will take less money to do so. Garciaparra has a $6 million base salary that already jumped to $6.5 million when he reached 400 plate appearances, and it will continue to increase if he doesn't get hurt. Those two likely will be too expensive for the Dodgers, who already have alternatives at closer (Takashi Saito) and first base (James Loney). Maddux has expressed at least some interest in returning, but it isn't clear how much that will cost. He will turn 41 in April and is already making $9 million, although the Dodgers are only paying about $1 million of it. Lofton, meanwhile, will reach $4 million if he stays healthy. But even though he is having a solid season and is ninth in the National League in hitting, the Dodgers might be able to re-sign him for close to what they are paying him now because he will turn 40 next May. Lugo won't be back because he only wants to sign with a club that will allow him to play shortstop on an everyday basis. Martinez has a history with Colletti, and as a utility man won't command an unusually high salary, so he probably will return. And while Sele's once-sagging career has been given new life with the Dodgers, he presently is in the bullpen and getting little work, so that could go either way. Drew sits: Dodgers manager Grady Little told right fielder J.D. Drew on the flight to San Diego from San Francisco on Sunday evening that he would get a day off from the starting lineup Wednesday. Drew, who had hit in the cleanup spot in the Dodgers' previous seven games, had gone 5 for 22 in those games, albeit with a home run and seven RBIs. Little has no plans to move Drew when he returns to the lineup Friday at Arizona. ``He is fine where he is,'' Little said. |
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