Broadcasters Rick Monday, Charley Steiner will return in 2017 with multi-year contracts.

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Vin Scully won’t be returning next year by all accounts, but the Dodgers’ radio broadcasts will have some continuity in 2017.

Rick Monday and Charley Steiner have signed new multi-year agreements, the organization announced today. Monday and Steiner have been working together for the past 12 seasons calling games on Dodgers radio broadcasts.

Here’s more from a team press release:
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Daily Distractions: Predicting the Dodgers’ plan at the draft table.

Corey Seager

Infielder Corey Seager (left, with Matt Kemp) was the Dodgers’ first-round draft pick last year. (Associated Press photo)

Aaaaand, stop. Put down your pencils.

Time to turn in your mock drafts. The real First-Year Player Draft begins with the first round sometime after 4 p.m. this afternoon and picks up tomorrow with the second round. The Dodgers hold the 18th pick.

SportsIllustrated.com broke down what each draft pick has yielded from 1990 to 2010. The 18th pick has yielded, um, not a lot:

… (R.A.) Dickey’s prominence is just further proof that this has been the worst pick among the top 25 over the last two decades. Beyond Dickey, the only No. 18 picks in the majors are Cardinals shortstop Pete Kozma (2007) and Mets first baseman Ike Davis (2008). Aside from Dickey and Davis, no other No. 18 pick from 1990 to 2010 has produced as much as two wins above replacement. The only No. 18 pick with a career bWAR greater than Dickey’s is Willie Wilson (CF, Royals, 1974)

The Dodgers have drafted pitchers with their first pick in seven of the last 11 years. Corey Seager, a shortstop-expected-to-be-turned-third-baseman was an exception in 2012. MLB.com thinks the Dodgers will buck the trend again and draft juco shortstop Tim Anderson. ESPN, SBNation.com and BaseballAmerica.com believe the trend will continue with (respectively) University of Arkansas right-hander Ryne Stanek, prep left-hander Rob Kaminsky or right-hander Hunter Harvey.

Click on those links and there seems to be a consensus of, say, five or six names that will be available to the Dodgers at 18. Remember, unlike most drafts there are no trades in baseball, so the Dodgers have no choice but to make the accursed pick. I’m told that whoever he is might be speaking to the media tonight or tomorrow.

Some bullet points for a Thursday morning:

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Dodgers renew Collins, Lyons, Monday, Steiner, Valenzuela, Yiguez.

Eric Collins, Steve Lyons, Rick Monday, Charley Steiner, Fernando Valenzuela and Pepe Yiguez will return in 2013, the Dodgers announced Saturday. That means all eight of the team’s regular in-game commentators will return next season, as the team previously renewed Hall of Famers Vin Scully and Jaime Jarrn.

Collins and Lyons call all road games outside California and Arizona on Prime Ticket and KCAL (Channel 9). Monday and Steiner call all Dodger games on KLAC (570-AM). Valenzuela is the color commentator on all home games and select road games on KTNQ (1020-AM) and Yiguez calls all Dodger games for the club’s Spanish-language broadcast.

Here’s some more about the six broadcasters from the team’s official press release:
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