McCourt To Evans : Prepare Your Resume



The Associated Press is reporting that Dodger GM Dan Evans will have to reapply for his own job.

New team owner Frank McCourt met with Evans on Friday and told him the team will start a search for a new general manager -- and that Evans' name will be on the list of candidates.

McCourt said he hopes to reach a decision by the beginning of spring training. The status of manager Jim Tracy would be left to whichever general manager is chosen, McCourt said.

"I assured him that he is still the general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers and that he is a legitimate candidate for the position," McCourt said. "I wanted to be very direct and honest with him, so that he heard it from me first."

Evans declined to comment.

McCourt is believed to be interested in longtime baseball executive Pat Gillick, especially after Oakland A's owner Steve Schott told the San Francisco Chronicle he wouldn't allow the Dodgers to interview his general manager, Billy Beane.

Evans is in the final year of a three-year contract.

There's nothing surprising about this, though it is hard to imagine what else Evans could've done between November and McCourt's acquisition of L.A. that would've improved his standing. He did manage to get Kevin Brown off the payroll (albiet by adding Jeff Weaver in the process) and he couldn't quite pull the trigger on a Nomar Garciaparra deal with Chicago if the SS wasn't actually traded from Boston.

With spring training a month away, perhaps the Dodgers are better off giving Evans another year to straighten things out and then pursuing Beane next year?

Posted: Sun - February 1, 2004 at 07:44 PM      

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