Dodgers Continue Remodeling With Hall

Continuing the restructuring of the Dodgers under new chairman Robert Daly, former publicity director Derrick Hall has been rehired as the organization’s fourth-highest-ranking official.

Hall, who left to pursue radio and TV opportunities last January, has accepted the newly created position of senior vice president of communications, putting him behind only Daly, President Bob Graziano and General Manager Kevin Malone among the club’s top decision-makers, team sources said Monday. Hall will oversee five business-side departments, and will have player-personnel responsibilities as well.

Although some details of Hall’s multiyear contract remained unresolved late Monday, two team sources said the deal would be completed today.

Hall worked for the Dodgers from 1992 until resigning to host a morning show on the team’s flagship radio station, KXTA. Hall, who became the publicity director in ‘96, is also a part-time sportscaster for KNBC-TV.

He will become Graziano’s top lieutenant. Graziano was recently reinstated as president by Daly after being fired by Rick Welts, president of Fox Sports Enterprises, and rehiring Hall was among his top priorities.

Welts, who no longer has any authority over the Dodgers, changed the terms of a deal that Graziano had reached with Hall in August. Hall rejected the revised deal, and the job description has been changed again.

Tommy Hawkins, longtime vice president of communications, will report to Hall, as will the directors of the publicity-media relations, broadcasting and publications, Internet and governmental-issues departments.

Notes

The Dodgers selected left-hander Bobby Bevel from the Colorado Rockies and and right-hander Aaron Cames from the Florida Marlins in the Rule 5 draft. They lost six minor leaguers, among them infielder Damian Rolls, the team’s first-round selection in the 1996 amateur draft.