After much deliberation, Manny Ramirez will be joining the team trip to Taiwan this March:
The Dodgers will bring 33 players to Taiwan, the club announced Tuesday.
The games are scheduled for March 12, 13 and 14 with a Dodgers split-squad remaining back in Arizona to continue play in the Cactus League.
Ramirez's participation in the goodwill event took on a soap-opera quality over the past week as he flip-flopped from going to not going.
Manager Joe Torre will lead the group that also includes first baseman James Loney, Ronnie Belliard, Taiwan natives Hong-Chih Kuo and Chin-lung Hu, Japan native Robert Boothe and South Korea native Hyang-Nam Choi. The rest of the roster will consist mostly of young players and non-roster invitees. The roster is subject to change before the March 10 departure. Ramirez will make the trip to Taiwan with the Dodgers for a three-game goodwill series against an All-Star team from the Chinese Professional Baseball League.
Nothing like jetlag on a trip to Asia in order to work out the offensive kinks on your most important hitter, who happens to be coming off a year where his output and power stroke declined! Yay!
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