Jeff Kent, who played the final four seasons of his career with the Dodgers, was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday night. He reacted to the news on a conference call, per Ronald Blum of Associated Press:

“I hugged my wife after the the phone call had come in,” Kent said, his voice cracking, “and I told her that a lot of the game had come rushing back to me at that moment. Similar to my retirement speech, my farewell speech that I did in LA, it reminds me of the ‘no crying in baseball.’ Well, I was bawling when I left the game because all that emotion just overcomes you.”

From Bill Plunkett of the Orange County Register ahead of the winter meetings, talking to Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman,: “‘I think adding someone to the mix is definitely

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