The Latest Breaking News from Dave Roberts

LOS ANGELES — Joe Maddon selected an adjective usually applied to a gallon of milk. Then again, for all the romance that surrounds the sport, baseball is a consumer product too.

PHOENIX — If not for the lockout, the Los Angeles Dodgers would have been at Chavez Ravine on Thursday, opening the regular season against the Colorado Rockies.

PHOENIX — It started on the back fields at Camelback Ranch.

The Dodgers’ star is living the good life. He’s not going to let a case of the preseason whiffs get him down.

PHOENIX — Dave Roberts sounded like a professor teaching a class on the complexities of hitting.

PHOENIX — It’s become an almost annual tradition around Los Angeles Dodgers spring training.

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PHOENIX — The Dodgers have agreed to a three-year contract extension with manager Dave Roberts, according to a person with knowledge of the situation, locking up the World Series-winning skipper through the 2025 season and ensuring he won’t manage the 2022 campaign in the last year of his deal.

One year after finishing second to the Giants in the NL West and being knocked out of the playoffs by the eventual champion Atlanta Braves, the Dodgers are gunning again for a World Series title.

PHOENIX — There was no formal meeting, no grand announcement or ceremonial declaration.

PHOENIX — Tuesday wasn't the first time Dave Roberts wrote Freddie Freeman's name into a lineup card.