Dusty Baker

Cincinnati Reds Manager Dusty Baker was having more tests done Thursday after being hospitalized because of an irregular heartbeat before Wednesday's game against the Chicago Cubs. Acting manager Chris Speier said he hadn't talked to Baker on Thursday because he was having the test. He did talk to him Wednesday night and said he sounded good. “I worry about Dusty and everybody in that clubhouse was really worried last night,” Speier said. “You don't just go to the hospital for a cold or anything like that.

Cincinnati Reds Manager Dusty Baker had a mini-stroke last week and will need at least one more week of rest before he's able to rejoin the team. "I'm feeling much better, and it's great being back here in Cincinnati," Baker, 63, said in a statement. He returned to Cincinnati after being discharged from a Chicago hospital earlier in the week. Chris Speier will remain interim manager of the Reds, who have already clinched a playoff spot, until Baker returns. Speier saw Baker when the manager visited the team on Tuesday.

The post-save somersaults that Cincinnati Reds closer Aroldis Chapman performed after nailing down a 4-3 victory over Milwaukee on Tuesday night not only irritated the Brewers, it also irritated his manager, Dusty Baker. "It's been addressed already and it's over," Baker said on Wednesday. "It won't happen again -- ever. I know he's happy and things have been going poorly for him, but he's got to demonstrate in a different way. " Chapman has struggled in the last couple of weeks, giving up game-losing homers to Cleveland and Minnesota.

Cincinnati Reds Manager Dusty Baker was having more tests done Thursday after being hospitalized because of an irregular heartbeat before Wednesday's game against the Chicago Cubs. Acting manager Chris Speier said he hadn't talked to Baker on Thursday because he was having the test. He did talk to him Wednesday night and said he sounded good. “I worry about Dusty and everybody in that clubhouse was really worried last night,” Speier said. “You don't just go to the hospital for a cold or anything like that.

Dusty Baker, remembering Roy Campanella, says both Campanella and Jim Gilliam, who died Oct. 8, 1978, meant a lot to him to him during his days as a Dodger. "Roy coached me all the time when I was here, he and Jim Gilliam," Baker said Wednesday after he returned from Campanella's funeral services. "They meant the most to me, and now they are both gone. They were both special to me. They used to talk to me all the time, about baseball things, about life things, everything."

Dusty Baker was hired as manager of the Cincinnati Reds, agreeing to a three-year deal Saturday with a team coming off its seventh consecutive losing season and looking for stability at the top. Baker, 58, worked as a television analyst for a year after the Chicago Cubs fired him after the 2006 season. The Reds decided to go for someone who knows the NL Central and has been to the World Series as a manager.

In his first day on the job, new San Francisco Giant Manager Dusty Baker did the unusual. He stole the spotlight from baseball's highest-paid player. Baker got the biggest cheer from a crowd of more than 1,000 people at a rally Wednesday to celebrate the not-finalized deal to keep the Giants in town. The welcome given Baker, whose hiring had been the subject of weeks of speculation, even surpassed that given to a tardy Barry Bonds and his father, Bobby.

Mention the great Dodger teams of the 1970s and the names that usually come to mind are Steve Garvey, Ron Cey and Davey Lopes. Those infielders, however, aren't the only members of what has become the Dodger Foreign Legion, which has proven there is life beyond Chavez Ravine. Former Dodgers Dusty Baker, Tommy John and Don Sutton have all found refuge with the Oakland A's, which historically has been sort of a halfway house for major leaguers that other teams have given up on.

The San Francisco Giants have the best defense in the National League, according to the fielding statistics, but this is a team that tends to be defensive in another way as well. Suggest that the team's recent success--the surprising Giants won the West Division title last year and lead the league's wild-card race this season--is proof that a team of limited talent consistently overachieves, and first baseman J.T. Snow says, "I don't know if you can overachieve as long as we have.

Dusty Baker, a former Dodger outfielder, has been promoted from first base coach to batting coach by the San Francisco Giants.

The post-save somersaults that Cincinnati Reds closer Aroldis Chapman performed after nailing down a 4-3 victory over Milwaukee on Tuesday night not only irritated the Brewers, it also irritated his manager, Dusty Baker. "It's been addressed already and it's over," Baker said on Wednesday. "It won't happen again -- ever. I know he's happy and things have been going poorly for him, but he's got to demonstrate in a different way. " Chapman has struggled in the last couple of weeks, giving up game-losing homers to Cleveland and Minnesota.

It's becoming clear to the Dodgers that they're running out of time to turn things around even if major league baseball has yet to reach the All-Star break. "We can't wait, we've got to do it now," center fielder Matt Kemp said Wednesday after the Cincinnati Reds rocked Dodgers starter Chad Billingsley to win, 7-2, and complete a three-game sweep at Dodger Stadium. Asked whether the Dodgers were feeling pressure to rebound, Kemp said, "There's no pressure. It just has to happen.

Bud Black hung on to win this race. Ron Gardenhire became a first-time Manager of the Year, too, after so many near misses. A month after his San Diego Padres were knocked out of the playoff chase on the final day, Black edged the Cincinnati Reds' Dusty Baker by one point for the National League award Wednesday. "I guess this vote was sort of like our season, it came down to the wire," Black said. Gardenhire was the clear choice in the American League, earning the honor after five times as the runner-up.

Cincinnati Reds Manager Dusty Baker was suspended for two games, and New York Yankees Manager Joe Girardi and San Diego Padres hitting coach Wally Joyner were penalized one game each Friday after recent arguments with umpires. Major League Baseball also fined all three undisclosed amounts. Girardi was suspended for kicking dirt that landed on plate umpire Chris Guccione in the ninth inning of Thursday night's 2-1 win over the Baltimore Orioles.

Dusty Baker was hired as manager of the Cincinnati Reds, agreeing to a three-year deal Saturday with a team coming off its seventh consecutive losing season and looking for stability at the top. Baker, 58, worked as a television analyst for a year after the Chicago Cubs fired him after the 2006 season. The Reds decided to go for someone who knows the NL Central and has been to the World Series as a manager.

Hours before the San Francisco Giants announced Monday that Felipe Alou would not return as manager, the man he replaced, Dusty Baker, was let go by the Chicago Cubs after a last-place finish and a failure to take the team to the World Series in his four years. The Cubs made the announcement a day after team president Andy MacPhail resigned and the club finished with a 66-96 record. "I wish we could have gotten it done, but we didn't," Baker said. "You see four years come to pass very quickly."

In his profile of Dusty Baker, was Mike Downey actually writing about the same guy who currently manages the Giants? Dusty Baker a good manager? Let's wait until October and then decide. Wasn't Dusty at the helm in 1993 when the Giants handed a division title to the Braves? What's Baker's record the past three years? Dusty Baker has an enormous chip on his shoulder with "Dodgers" written all over it. Baker openly harbors as much bitter, irrational animosity toward the Dodgers as the average whining Giants fan. The Giants and Baker are a perfect fit. They deserve each other.

Chicago Cubs General Manager Jim Hendry said Thursday that he would stick with Dusty Baker as his manager for the rest of the season. "As far as the rest of the season goes, I let Dusty know today that he would be staying the rest of the year," said Hendry. "There won't be any discussions or questions to be asked about extensions now or anything like that. But I let him know that the next couple months, I felt it was best for the club that he complete the season and not worry about that."

"They've been hearing that too long in Chicago. They've been hearing 'hang in' for 100 years now. Yeah, you'd like to say it, but nobody wants to hear it now." Dusty Baker, Chicago Cubs manager, when asked whether Cubs fans should be asked to show patience during the team's 34-54 season.