The Dodgers announced their Minor League coaching staff on Sunday, and each club has a new manager.

Pirates outfielder Starling Marte went 2-for-3 with a double for Escogido, who broke through in the ninth inning of a scoreless game to come away with a 2-0 victory Saturday.

The Rangers made another big offseason splash Saturday, reeling in the best remaining position player on the free-agent market with a seven-year, $130 million deal with outfielder and on-base machine Shin-Soo Choo.

The Giants never really found an ideal spot for Brett Pill, but he’ll finally get an opportunity to play every day next year in Korea. San Francisco has sold Pill’s rights to the KIA Tigers of the Korea Baseball Organization, and Pill has agreed to a one-year contract with the club, pending a physical.

Shin-Soo Choo was dogged in his belief that if he put in the time, the work, the sweat, he could ascend to the highest level of the sport and make a better life for himself and, ultimately, his family. Saturday’s news of Choo’s pending contract with the Texas Rangers is validation of everything Choo has done and all that he is.

After missing the playoffs and seeing their offensive numbers slip in 2013, the Rangers made another significant splash on Saturday, agreeing to a seven-year, $130 million contract with free-agent outfielder Shin-Soo Choo.

The Nationals agreed to terms with catcher Chris Snyder on a Minor League deal with an invitation to Spring Training, the team announced Saturday.

The Texas Rangers just won the offseason. In the end, it appears to be about that simple. That is, if winning the offseason is defined as identifying the club that has put itself in best position to win the World Series in 2014. If they’re not at the top of the American League power rankings after adding two impact hitters — Prince Fielder and Shin-Soo Choo — they’re close.

The Rakuten Golden Eagles have the upper hand in deciding whether to keep right-hander Masahiro Tanaka or allow him to be posted for bidding by Major League teams. They could see it as a win-win situation.

Aguilas bounced back from a one-run deficit with a three-run sixth inning, then pulled away with three more in the eighth. Cardinals right-hander Carlos Martinez struck out seven and allowed only one hit and an unearned run over 4 1/3 innings for Aguilas.

The year of 2013 for Major League Baseball was punctuated in December by the election of three of the greatest managers of their generation into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

The Orioles’ deal with free-agent right-hander Grant Balfour is off, and their search for a closer continues. Baltimore will look elsewhere for Jim Johnson’s replacement after the club’s medical staff “wasn’t satisfied” with the 35-year-old Balfour’s physical exam this week, Orioles executive vice president of baseball operations Dan Duquette said on a conference call with reporters Friday.

Sidearming right-hander Brad Ziegler agreed to a two-year contract extension with the D-backs on Friday. The deal, which allows the two sides to avoid going to arbitration, includes a club option for 2016 and guarantees him $10.5 million.

The A’s have signed first baseman Daric Barton to a one-year contract, avoiding arbitration with their longest-tenured player. A source has told MLB.com that it’s the second straight non-guaranteed contract for Barton.

There’s been a lot of trade talk about Billy Butler going around. So what do you imagine would happen if Butler sat down with a bunch of reporters? Yep, they wanted to talk trade.

Third base has been addressed, the bullpen has been shored up, cost-controlled pitching has been added and the Mark Trumbo void has been filled. Now, less than a week away from Christmas, the Angels’ offseason shopping list is down to just one item: A free-agent starting pitcher.

For Astros catcher Jason Castro, paying attention in class wasn’t a problem. As soon as the 2013 season was over, Castro headed to Northern California, in order to finish his coursework for a degree from Stanford.