Kent will play for Dodgers next season

 
Jeff Kent will return to play a fourth season for the Los Angeles Dodgers. The slugger's agent, Jeff Klein, said in an e-mail that his client had advised Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti that he intends to play next year. Kent, who turns 40 in March, is baseball's career leader in home runs by a second baseman. [link]

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