{"id":88830,"date":"2015-12-01T15:19:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T21:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=88830"},"modified":"2015-12-01T15:20:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T21:20:11","slug":"dave-roberts-new-dodgers-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=88830","title":{"rendered":"Dave Roberts new Dodgers manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/RobertsDave.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-88831\" alt=\"RobertsDave\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/RobertsDave.jpg\" width=\"137\" height=\"77\" \/><\/a>\u00a0LOS ANGELES (AP) &#8211; The Dodgers have officially introduced Dave Roberts as the first minority manager in franchise history.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The former major leaguer slipped on the No. 30 jersey offered by co-owner Magic Johnson on Tuesday at Dodger Stadium.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Roberts says it&#8217;s a &#8220;huge day&#8221; for him and he&#8217;s eager to get to work for a team that hasn&#8217;t won a World Series since 1988.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Roberts has begun the process of getting to know the players, having spoken to about 15 of them already. He&#8217;s set to spend Sunday with ace Clayton Kershaw.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The 43-year-old former center fielder comes from the San Diego Padres, where he was bench coach the last two seasons. Roberts started for the Dodgers from 2002-04. He played college baseball at UCLA after growing up in the San Diego area.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 First baseman Adrian Gonzalez and Dodger greats Don Newcombe and Maury Wills were on hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0LOS ANGELES (AP) &#8211; The Dodgers have officially introduced Dave Roberts as the first minority manager in franchise history. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The former major leaguer slipped on the No. 30 jersey offered by co-owner Magic Johnson on Tuesday at Dodger Stadium. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Roberts says it&#8217;s a &#8220;huge day&#8221; for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":88832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88834,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88830\/revisions\/88834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}