Reports: Dave Roberts to manage Dodgers
— -- The Los Angeles Dodgers have hired former player Dave Roberts to replace Don Mattingly as the team's manager, according to multiple reports.
The hiring was first reported by the Los Angeles Times.
Roberts, 43, played 10 years in the major leagues for the Cleveland Indians, Dodgers, Boston Red Sox, San Diego Padres and San Francisco Giants. He stole 243 bases in the regular season and played in the postseason four times.
He was the Padres' bench coach the past two seasons and managed one game in 2015 -- a 9-1 loss -- on an interim basis after Bud Black was fired and before Pat Murphy could arrive from the minor leagues to take over for the rest of the season.
Roberts joined the Padres as first-base coach in 2011.
He interviewed for the Seattle Mariners' managerial opening earlier this fall before the job went to Scott Servais.
Roberts, whose father is African-American and mother is Japanese, will be the first minority manager in Padres franchise history.
He is reported to have beaten former player and current Dodgers director of player development Gabe Kapler for the position.
ESPN Insider Jim Bowden contributed to this report.
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