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Preparing for Joe Torre

The Los Angeles Dodgers are getting ready for their new manager. The Dodgers player most closely linked to Grady Little is totally pumped that Joe Torre was hired on Thursday as replacement for Little. “Playing against him and seeing how good he is at winning, when you think of Joe Torre, you think of winning,” Derek Lowe said who played against Joe Torre's Yankees while pitching for Grady Little in Boston. “It's a huge step in the right direction. If I was a fan, I'd be extremely excited. We just got arguably the best manager out there and you can't put Joe Torre on a team that doesn't have the talent to win it all.”

In addition to Joe Torre's managerial track record, according to Derek Lowe, his hiring could signal there's more good news on the way. “Everything that happened, I didn't see any of it coming,” Lowe said, who is entering the final year of a four-year contract. “But now that it's happened, I hope it's a sign that the organization is truly committed to winning. You have to assume that if they bring in Torre, they'll bring in the players to allow him to use his skills and win a World Series, to go out and get the best available. Everyone says that's Alex Rodriguez. Who knows? But, you hope this is the first step toward getting guys in here that have won before. There are all kinds of people we could get.”

Moreover, general manager Ned Colletti, in announcing the hiring of Joe Torre was non-committal on the team’s plans for a pursuit of Alex Rodriguez, a free agent who would fill holes at third base and the middle of the batting order, but also would come with a price tag that equals the value of some franchises.

The LA Dodgers spent $124 million on salaries in 2007 and Ned Colletti said the payroll for 2008 has not yet been determined. Colletti added that he hopes to add pitching, a middle-of-the-order bat and conceded that third base is "somewhat of a question" with Nomar Garciaparra and Andy LaRoche. Alternatives to Alex Rodriguez might be free agent Mike Lowell or the possibility of a trade for someone like the Marlins’ Miguel Cabrera.

But Ned Colletti was careful addressing roster upgrades. Colletti warned that the free-agent market is “fairly thin” and that teams looking there to upgrade could be disappointed. The implication being that Joe Torre's arrival did not mean the club scrapped plans to “stay the course” with the youth movement that took firm hold this year. “It's also about the players we have here getting better,” Ned Colletti said. “We're not always going to call in the cavalry, to make a bundle of moves free agency-wise or trade-wise. Trades are getting harder to consummate because teams aren't willing to move players of quality. So some of it's beholden upon us to getting the most out of the players we have here.”

However, the hot-stove possibilities have Derek Lowe energized for 2008, a complete shift from the way he felt when the 2007 season unraveled. “It was hard to go to the ballpark, and you never want to say that,” Lowe said. “What happened took all the fun out of it. We were not on the same page to win. Our communication was very poor, everybody -- me included -- and no one put a stop to it. You don't have to be best friends, but you have to find a way to root for the guy next to you to have the same goal.”

Derek Lowe was one of the Dodgers veterans who spoke out late in the season when everything went south. Lowe does not have enough fingers to point in all the directions that deserved blame. That said, he was confident the clubhouse turmoil will be eliminated by Joe Torre. “He'll change the attitude of our team, no doubt,” he stated. “He'll get the clubhouse straightened out relatively quickly in Spring Training. There was not one person really to blame. You can blame the veterans, the kids. All sectors handled it relatively poorly. By far, communication was the worst thing, a real failure. There was a lot of animosity.”

Furthermore, according to teammate Joe Beimel, whose career blossomed playing for Grady Little, he is eager to play for Joe Torre. “The track record speaks for itself,” Beimel said. “I hope he gets us back to the playoffs. This speaks volumes about what the team is willing to do to win. I talked to [former Yankee] Scott Proctor today. He said to be ready to pitch a lot. He [Torre] likes to use the bullpen. That's fine with me.”

As the LA Dodgers gets ready for the new manager, the team also prepares for the upcoming season.

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