21.   Given their outright releases were pitching coach Frank Reberger, bullpen coach Bob McClure and first-base coach Vada Pinson.

22.   Glenn Hoffman went from Dodgers manager to bullpen coach during the winter and sometimes it is hard to tell which is the more important job.

23.   Hardy was the bullpen coach for six years before being promoted last winter after Johnny Oates fired his longtime friend and pitching coach Dick Bosman.

24.   He made Arlington his off-season home, so that he could work out with bullpen coach Larry Hardy.

25.   He is the bullpen coach.

26.   He had worked with Red Sox bullpen coach Dick Pole during the winter and headed to spring training with renewed confidence.

27.   He replaced Bob Apodaca with Dave Wallace as pitching coach, Randy Niemann with Al Jackson as bullpen coach, and Tom Robson with Mickey Brantley as hitting coach.

28.   He will either be reassigned as the bullpen coach or be dropped to the minor league complex.

29.   His coaching staff is diverse and includes a black hitting coach, a Dominican coaching at first, a French Canadian bullpen coach and a Mexican pitching coach.

30.   Hollandsworth, who took batting practice for the first time Friday, was back in the cage early Saturday facing every off-speed pitch bullpen coach Mark Cresse could throw.