Dodgers announce minor-league coaching staff.

The Dodgers formally announced their 2013 minor-league coaching staff Monday. It’s a long list with mostly familiar names:

Field Coordinator: Bruce Hines
Senior Advisor, Player Development: Gene Clines, Charlie Hough
Senior Advisor, Latin America: Ramon Martinez
Hitting Coordinator: Eric Owens
Pitching Coordinator: Rafael Chaves
Outfield/Baserunning Coordinator: Damon Mashore
Infield Coordinator: Pat Listach
Catching Coordinator: Travis Barbary
Assistant Hitting Coordinator: Todd Takayoshi
Assistant Pitching Coordinator: Richard Knapp
Coordinator of Arizona Instruction: John Shoemaker
Campo Las Palmas Coordinator: Henry Cruz
Field Coordinator, Campo Las Palmas: Antonio Bautista

Triple-A Albuquerque:
Manager: Lorenzo Bundy
Hitting Coach: Franklin Stubbs
Pitching Coach: Glenn Dishman

Double-A Chattanooga:
Manager: Jody Reed
Hitting Coach: Orv Franchuk
Pitching Coach: Hector Berrios

Single-A Rancho Cucamonga:
Manager: Carlos Subero
Hitting Coach: Johnny Washington
Pitching Coach: Matt Herges

Single-A Great Lakes:
Manager: Razor Shines
Hitting Coach: Mike Eylward
Pitching Coach: Bill Simas

Rookie-advanced Ogden:
Manager: Damon Berryhill
Hitting Coach: Esteban Lopez
Pitching Coach: TBD

Rookie-level Arizona League Dodgers:
Manager: P.J. Forbes
Hitting Coach: Leo Garcia
Pitching Coach: Kremlin Martinez

Rookie-level Dominican Summer League Dodgers:
Manager: Pedro Mega
Hitting Coach: Keyter Collado
Pitching Coach: Alejandro Pena
Catching Coach: Jose D. Hernandez
Assistant Coach: Rafael Ozuna

Sorting out the important details …

• John Valentin, the Triple-A hitting coach last year, is now the assistant major-league hitting coach to Mark McGwire. He’s replaced by Stubbs, who moves up from the same position at Double-A Chattanooga. Otherwise, the Albuquerque Isotopes’ staff remains intact.
• Subero was the manager at Chattanooga the last three seasons; he replaces Juan Bustabad in Rancho. Washington replaces Michael Boughton, who had been with the Dodgers organization since 2008, as the Quakes’ hitting coach. The Quakes went 68-72 in 2012 and missed the playoffs. Pete Marshall, who covers the California League for the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin and San Bernardino Sun, reports via Twitter that Bustabad is looking for work and might coach in high school next year.
• Reed was the Dodgers’ minor-league infield coordinator last year and guided the Arizona League Dodgers to a championship in 2011.
• Forbes spent the last nine seasons managing in the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh organizations, the last two at the helm of the Double-A Altoona Curve of the Eastern League.
• Takayoshi spent the past 11 seasons as a coach in the Angels’ organization, including the last six years as the Angels’ Roving Hitting Coordinator. Serving in a dual role in 2011, he was also the club’s field coordinator. Takayoshi was a two-time batting champion as left-handed hitting catcher during his four years of affiliated baseball in the Angels’ farm system from 1993-96.
• Knapp, who has spent 30 years in professional baseball, was the Royals’ minor league pitching coordinator last season after serving as the pitching coach of the Detroit Tigers from 2009-2011. Knapp, 51, pitched in five minor league seasons from 1983-87 in the Padres and Rangers organizations.
• Shoemaker, who has a long history with the organization, moves from Great Lakes to succeed Matt Martin as the Coordinator of Arizona Instruction. Martin also managed the AZL Dodgers to a 34-21 record last season, but appears to be out of the organization.

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J.P. Hoornstra covers the Dodgers, Angels and Major League Baseball for the Orange County Register, Los Angeles Daily News, Long Beach Press-Telegram, Torrance Daily Breeze, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Pasadena Star-News, San Bernardino Sun, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Whittier Daily News and Redlands Daily Facts. Before taking the beat in 2012, J.P. covered the NHL for four years. UCLA gave him a degree once upon a time; when he graduated on schedule, he missed getting Arnold Schwarzenegger's autograph on his diploma by five months.