Day 3 of the Dodgers’ 3-day winter development camp is today.

Gabe Kapler, the Dodgers’ new director of player development, discussed his goals for the program in some detail Monday. Kapler was outspoken about making a break from the past — not doing things the same way as a year ago “because they’re the way they’ve always been done,” as he put it.

Since Kapler wasn’t here a year ago, I asked Dodgers manager Don Mattingly on Wednesday to identify the biggest difference in this year’s program from years past.

“This camp is different from the standpoint that (in past years) they (the prospects) would take BP, throw bullpens, do all kinds of different baseball work,” Mattingly said. “This has been educational; some classroom stuff. They had some of that in the past too, different speakers, but also not putting these guys in a position that they come out and try to compete at this point in the winter. When they’re still getting ready, we don’t need them to try to impress Gabe or myself, Farhan (Zaidi, the Dodgers’ general manager), anybody that may be watching, that they’re ready to go — end up getting themselves hurt.”

So the process is different. For Mattingly, the end goal hasn’t changed.

“The main thing is to take a lot of the unknowns out for these kids, so when they get called up to this stadium they know where to go,” he said. “They know Mitch (Poole, the Dodgers’ home clubhouse manager), the clubhouse staff, they’ve been to a couple places around the city. They don’t seem like that big of a deal for a young player coming up they’re some of the fears that you have. It allows them to play baseball right away.”

There’s a detailed post up on DodgerInsider.com about the advanced stats session the prospects attended today.