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Fred Claire made a big splash in his first winter meetings as Dodgers GM

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LOS ANGELES — The winter meetings will get underway on Sunday evening in Orlando, with the entire baseball world gathering in one spot with rumor mills spinning at full speed. Thirty years ago in Dallas the Dodgers were very active, making one memorable trade and nearly making another.

The Dodgers were coming off consecutive 89-loss seasons. They were bad teams, even allowing pitcher Joe Magrane to steal home though rain washed that game away.

“I knew that we had to do several things to improve,” Fred Claire said last week.

“We went into those meetings with three things that had to be accomplished.