The Los Angeles Dodgers signed catcher Brad Ausmus (below) to a one-year, $1 million contract to serve as a backup to Russell Martin. Ausmus is a career .251 hitter with 79 home runs and 596 RBI, and has won 3 gold gloves. He is known for handling pitching staffs. 2B Jeff Kent is ready to retire from baseball tomorrow, ending his hall-of-fame career with the Dodgers. Kent has accumulated many incredible statistics over the years, including a .290 batting average, 377 home runs, 1518 RBIs, 560 doubles and a .500 slugging percentage. 351 of his homers are the most by any second baseman in baseball history. He won the NL MVP award in 2000,
and is 5-time All Star and 4-time Silver Slugger. Kent played with Toronto, Cleveland, the New York Mets, San Francisco and Houston before coming to LA. His best year with the Dodgers came in 2005, his first season with the team, when he hit 29 home runs to go with 105 RBIs and 100 runs scored.
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