Source: Dave Roberts to manage Dodgers

— -- The Los Angeles Dodgers have hired former player Dave Roberts to replace Don Mattingly as the team's manager, a league source confirmed to ESPN.com's Jerry Crasnick.

Although the Dodgers have decided on Roberts and he has agreed to take the job, a baseball source said the two sides were still working out the final contract details as of Sunday night.

The hiring was first reported by the Los Angeles Times. 

Roberts, 43, is a former Dodgers outfielder who played for the team from 2002-04. He also played for the Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, San Diego Padres and  San Francisco Giants during a 10-year career that ended in 2008. Roberts 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 will succeed Mattingly, who mutually parted ways with the Dodgers last month after five years that included winning three consecutive NL West titles but never reaching the World Series.

Roberts, whose father is African-American and mother is Japanese, will be the first minority manager in the storied franchise's 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 and The Associated Press contributed to this report.