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Doc Rodgers, formerly the Reds' assistant general manager, was named the Baltimore Orioles' director of player development on Tuesday.
Rodgers, 40, has been in professional baseball for the past 18 years, most of it in the Cincinnati organization. He was assistant GM until he was re-assigned to special assistant in late October.
"It's tough to leave," Rodgers said. "But I have an opportunity for a new challenge to work with outstanding baseball people who recognize my talent."
REDS AWARDS: Aaron Boone won the Ernie Lombardi Award, naming him the Reds' most valuable player as voted by the Cincinnati chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
Boone set career highs for home runs (26), RBI (87) and stolen bases (32) last season. Boone also was one of two National League players to appear in all 162 games.
Jimmy Haynes was selected as the Johnny Vander Meer Award winner, given to the team's outstanding pitcher. Haynes, in his first year with the Reds, went 15-10 to set a career high for wins.
The Good Guy Award, renamed the Joe Nuxhall Good Guy Award, went to right-hander Jose Rijo. Nuxhall has been with the Reds as a player or broadcaster for 52 years.
NAME DELAY: The announcement of the new Reds mascot's name, scheduled for Sunday, was pushed to Jan. 26 because the club is sifting through 6,400 entries.
Around the majors
ANGELS: Second baseman Adam Kennedy, last fall's American League Championship Series MVP, agreed to a $2.27 million, one-year contract with Anaheim.
Kennedy led the World Series champion Angels with a .312 batting average last season.
BRAVES: Left-hander Mike Venafro signed a $500,000, one-year contract to provide depth in Atlanta's bullpen.
Venafro played with the Oakland Athletics last season, going 2-2 with a 4.62 earned run average in 47 outings. He allowed 10 of 44 inherited baserunners to score, the eighth-lowest ratio among AL relievers.
BREWERS: Milwaukee signed right-hander Todd Ritchie to a one-year contract. Ritchie finished with a 5-15 record and a 6.06 earned run average in 23 games last season with the Chicago White Sox. He has a 42-50 career record over six seasons with the Minnesota Twins, Pittsburgh Pirates and White Sox.
Another former Pirate, catcher Keith Osik, signed a minor-league contract with the Brewers and received an invitation to spring training. Osik has a .231 batting average in 359 career games.
DODGERS: Los Angeles re-signed reliever Guillermo Mota to a $675,000, one-year contract and signed reliever Pedro Borbon to a minor-league contract with an invitation to spring training.
EXPOS: Righty Tony Armas Jr. agreed to a $2.1 million, one-year deal with Montreal. Armas went 12-12 with a 4.44 ERA in 29 starts last year, finishing second on the Expos in wins behind Tomo Ohka (13-8). Armas has a 28-36 career record with a 4.21 ERA.
YANKEES: Hideki Matsui was officially introduced by the team and got a quick request from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg: Please spend your millions here!
"Goodness, we need the sales-tax revenue," Bloomberg told Matsui at a news conference.
The Yankees' newest international star, nicknamed Godzilla, agreed last month to a $21 million, three-year deal. He probably will play left field.
Minor leagues
MATTINGLY-RIPKEN DEAL: Don Mattingly and Cal Ripken Jr. are buying minority shares in a minor league team and plan to move it to Mattingly's hometown of Evansville, Ind.
"They'll work with me in tandem. They'll be involved in the whole operation,'' said David Heller, who plans to bring the South Georgia Waves, a South Atlantic League affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers, to Evansville to play in a proposed 6,000-seat stadium.
Mattingly, a former New York Yankees first baseman, is a consultant for the stadium committee appointed last winter by Mayor Russell Lloyd Jr.
The Waves arrived in Albany in March but drew an average home attendance of 1,039 last season.
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