WHAT'S TRACY'S FUTURE IN L.A.? MANAGER COULD BE GOING TO PITTSBURGH SAN DIEGO 3, DODGERS 1.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. - While Dodgers general manager Paul DePodesta Paul DePodesta (born December 16, 1972) is baseball front-office assistant for the San Diego Padres. He has also served as general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers from February 16, 2004 to October 29, 2005. and manager Jim Tracy
Tracy developed a strong relationship with Pirates general manager Dave Littlefield David Littlefield is a former Major League Baseball executive. Littlefield was employed as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, a position he held from July 13, 2001 to September 7, 2007. in the late 1990s while both were employed by the Montreal Expos The Montreal Expos (French: Les Expos de Montréal) were a Major League Baseball team located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from 1969 until 2004. After the 2004 season, the franchise relocated to Washington, D.C. and became the Washington Nationals. and is known to have been on the Pirates' short list since Littlefield fired Lloyd McClendon Lloyd Glenn McClendon (born January 11, 1959 in Gary, Indiana, USA) is the Hitting Coach for the Detroit Tigers, serving under Jim Leyland. McClendon is also a former Major League Baseball player and a former manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates. on Sept. 6. The other top candidates for the job are former Pirates manager Jim Leyland, now a scout for St. Louis, and Oakland manager Ken Macha, a Pittsburgh-area native who reportedly is negotiating a possible contract extension with the A's. Tracy's ties to Littlefield might put him ahead of both Leyland and Macha. Littlefield joined the Pirates during a four-game series at Dodger Stadium Sept. 23-26, arriving separately from the team on a commercial flight. Assistant general manager Doug Strange also was with the club on that trip. A source close to the Pirates said Sunday it is highly unusual for both Littlefield and Strange to be on the road with the club at the same time. Tracy was a minor-league manager for the Expos from 1993-94 and was then-Expos manager Felipe Alou's bench coach from 1995-98. Littlefield joined the Expos in 1991 as a national crosschecker and East Coast scouting supervisor and was the club's player development director from 1996-98. Tracy is signed through next season, but has an escape clause that allows him to leave the Dodgers and pursue other opportunities. That clause must be exercised within the next eight days or not at all. Tracy has requested a contract extension, but doesn't appear likely to receive one with the Dodgers coming off a lackluster season in which they went 71-91 and finished fourth in the National League West, 11 games behind the division champion Padres. That means Tracy likely will finish out his contract next season or be fired. Asked on Sunday morning what he thought the next few days would be like for him, Tracy said he planned to watch his youngest son Mark, 17, play football for Claremont High School Claremont High School can refer to:
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