/ STAFF WRITER
OAKLAND – Discontent with the Dodgers’ poor baserunning – not Manager Don Mattingly – prompted the hiring of former Brewers manager Ron Roenicke this week, General Manager Farhan Zaidi insisted Tuesday.
“I can say with all sincerity … this move is about this year and it’s about him in this role helping us to go as far as we can in 2015,” Zaidi said of the move to replace Lorenzo Bundy as third-base coach with Roenicke.
Mattingly brushed off any concerns that Roenicke will be perceived as his replacement-in-waiting.
“I’m not concerned about that.