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Dodgers hiring former Brewers and Red Sox manager as special assistant

ByThomas Carannante|
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - AUGUST 17: (NEW YORK DAILIES OUT) Boston Red Sox manager Ron Roenicke looks on against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium on August 17, 2020 in New York City. The Yankees defeated the Red Sox 6-3. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - AUGUST 17: (NEW YORK DAILIES OUT) Boston Red Sox manager Ron Roenicke looks on against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium on August 17, 2020 in New York City. The Yankees defeated the Red Sox 6-3. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)

The heavy lifting might be done for the Los Angeles Dodgers, but there are still a few other moves to be made, like adding a former MLB manager to the front office!

According to the latest buzz, Ron Roenicke, whose most well-known stops have been with the Milwaukee Brewers and Boston Red Sox as their skipper, will be joining the Dodgers as a special assistant to the general manager.

Roenicke, who was fired from his post after a little over four years with the Brew Crew back in 2015, resurfaced in Boston and was serving as bench coach under Alex Cora in 2019.

When Cora got “dismissed” (he immediately returned the second his suspension was lifted), Roenicke took over as manager in 2020, the Red Sox were terrible, and he was again out of work.

2021’s looking like a much better year for the former utility infielder already, though.

Now he’ll be a member of an honorable championship organization with Spring Training getting underway.

It couldn’t hurt to add someone who’s been around the game since the early 1980s, could it? Plus, he came up with the Dodgers as a player after being drafted in the first round back in 1977. Unfortunately, he was released in 1983 after 212 games with the team and ended up playing for the Mariners, Padres, Giants, Reds and Phillies before his career ended in 1988.

He then transitioned to coaching in 1992, and that opportunity also came with the Dodgers. He was on the MLB staff before getting managerial gigs in the minors. It was until working under Mike Scioscia as the Angels’ bench coach that he got seriously looked at as a managerial candidate.

But now it’s all come full circle. In fact, Roenicke was most recently LA’s third-base coach after he was fired by the Brewers. That offseason, he left for the same position with the Angels before arriving in Boston.

Is there any chance we can get him to take over a game for Dave Roberts, though? Roenicke’s career winning percentage is .499 and he’s just one win shy of reaching .500. Boston’s terrible 2020 campaign put him at 366-367 across parts of six seasons.

Either that, or a ring as a member of the front office. That’ll do, right Ron?

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