LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers will have a new first base coach in 2016, as Davey Lopes was hired on Thursday by the Nationals after five seasons in Los Angeles.
Lopes will coach first base in Washington, where he is reunited with former teammate Dusty Baker, who was introduced as manager of the Nationals on a two-year contract on Thursday. Baker and Lopes were teammates on the Dodgers from 1976-1981.
Lopes coached first base for the Nationals in 2006.
The Dodgers are still sorting out their managerial search, with their new skipper likely to choose the bulk of his own staff.