Piniella not interested in Dodgers' job

11/20/2005
Former Tampa Bay manager Lou Piniella will not be a candidate for the Dodgers' managerial vacancy. Piniella, whom the Devil Rays let out of his contract last month, told Dodgers GM Ned Colletti on Saturday that the timing isn't right for him to return to the dugout. "He was very flattered that we were considering him," said Colletti, who spoke with Piniella by phone for about 15 minutes. "I don't want to put words in his mouth, but the way he put it was that he feels his tank is empty right now. He doesn't think he can do the job the way he wants to do it.
"He said if this was a year from now, he would have been all over it."
Colletti and three high-ranking members of his staff met with Atlanta special assistant Jim Fregosi on Saturday, making Fregosi the first candidate to be formally interviewed for the job since Colletti was named the Dodgers' GM on Wednesday. The meeting took place in the Tampa Bay area, where Fregosi lives and where Colletti attended San Francisco GM Brian Sabean's wedding on Friday night.
Colletti also met privately with Dodgers player development director Terry Collins, another Tampa Bay resident. He was former GM Paul DePodesta's choice for the job, but that ended when DePodesta was fired on Oct. 29.

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