The Colorado Rockies are bringing in Josh Byrnes from the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers to become their general manager, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press on Wednesday,

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision had not been announced.

Byrnes will team again with Paul DePodesta, who was hired Nov. 7 as the Rockies' president of baseball operations. The two joined forces in Cleveland in the 1990s, before DePodesta went to the Oakland Athletics and Byrnes joined the Rockies to work with then-GM Dan O'Dowd.

Byrnes will try to turn around a franchise that's coming off a third straight 100-loss season. He's fresh off winning a World Series with the Dodgers for a second straight season. He also was with the Dodgers when they won i

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