With daylight saving postponed until March and winter’s bitterness nearing, one of baseball’s ephemeral love stories is over: Yasiel Puig’s favorite kissing partner, hitting coach Turner Ward, is headed to Cincinnati away from Los Angeles. After three seasons in Los Angeles, Ward is joining new manager David Bell’s staff with the Reds so he can be closer to his family in Mobile, Ala.
"The vision of what they're trying to do, I can see it," Ward said on a media conference call. "I've been impressed with their offense. Also, add the logistics of being closer to home. Family is very important to me and it made it hard being in LA.