The Los Angeles Dodgers continue to add more brainpower and manpower to their front office, hiring former big leaguers Greg Maddux and Raul Ibanez on Tuesday.
According to the Dodgers' official Twitter account, Maddux and Ibanez have joined the team as special assistants to the president of baseball operations and baseball operations department.
The Dodgers have had an eventful offseason, though not for reasons most fans in Los Angeles like. They lost Zack Greinke to their National League West rivals in the Arizona Diamondbacks, opting to sign Scott Kazmir and Kenta Maeda for their starting rotation.
Yet what the Dodgers have lacked in free-agent buzz, they have more than made up for with the bolstering of their front office.
Already boasting a group that included president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman, senior vice president of baseball operations Josh Byrnes and general manager Farhan Zaidi, the Dodgers brought in former Toronto Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos as vice president of baseball operations.
The job of special assistant to the president of baseball operations, which Maddux and Ibanez will be serving, is often left vague. Many former players serve in that role, with Chipper Jones returning to the Atlanta Braves under the same banner.
According to Mark Bowman of MLB.com, Jones' role in Atlanta includes spending time with the team during spring training and doing work at major league and minor league levels throughout the regular season.
Maddux and Ibanez could conceivably do the same thing for the Dodgers, helping inform Friedman and Zaidi about personnel decisions throughout the year and about when to bring players up from the minor leagues.
Regardless of what Maddux and Ibanez will be doing for the Dodgers, their hiring continues the franchise's trend of adding as many smart, informed baseball voices as possible to the mix so it is making the best decisions for 2016 and beyond.
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