Farhan Zaidi returns to the Los Angeles Dodgers as a special assistant for the 2025 season after serving as the San Francisco Giants team president (USA Today file photo)

On That’s Amaury News and Commentary podcast:

#1 The Los Angeles Dodgers noted for know what they are doing and they have the resume to back it up have brought back former general manager Farhan Zaidi. Zaidi was team president for the San Francisco Giants and was fired after last season. Zaidi now returns to the Dodgers as special advisor.

#2 Alex Rodriquez and Marc Lore are on deck to take ownership of the Minnesota Timberwolves. Arbitrators have ruled in favor of the transfer of ownership from Timberwolves current owner Glen Taylor. Lore and A-Rod will also be on the NBA board of governors once the ownership transfer is approved. Amaury what’s it got to be like for someone like A-Rod to be a former MLB player to now owning an NBA team?

#3 Former Cincinnati Reds great Pete Rose’s No.14 will be on the sleeves on Reds uniforms for the 2025 season. While Rose has a lifetime ban the Reds said “14 on our side all season” Rose is the MLB all time hits leader with 4,256 hits.

#4 Ippei Mizuhara the former Los Angeles Dodgers interpreter for Shohei Ohtani was sentenced for 57 months for stealing close to $17 million from Ohtani. The sentence starts on March 24th and Mizuhara will serve three years of supervision once released. Mizuhara has been ordered by the court to pay Ohtani the $17 million in restitution.

#5 Some of the big questions that are being asked about the A’s who will open their 2025 interim season at Sutter Health Park in Sacramento. How will the A’s adjust to playing in a minor league park and will that work to their advantage when visiting clubs come? Also how will A’s history work into the A’s short stint in Sacramento?

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Amaury Pi-Gonzalez – Cuban-born Pi-González is one of the pioneers of Spanish-language baseball play-by-play in America. Began as Oakland A’s Spanish-language voice in 1977, a role he continues to this day (interrupted by stops with the Giants, Mariners and Angels). Voice of the Golden State Warriors from 1992 through 1998. 2010 inducted in the Bay Area Radio Hall of fame