The Los Angeles Dodgers put the finishing touches on what many are labeling a front-office dream team on Friday by officially announcing the hiring of former major leaguer Gabe Kapler as the team's director of player development. Kapler joins new general manager Farhan Zaidi and new senior vice president of baseball operations Josh Byrnes on Andrew Friedman's revamped staff. Friedman himself was hired on Oct. 14 to serve as the Dodgers president of baseball operations . Kapler, 39, played 12 seasons in the major leagues with six different teams. After four seasons with the Boston Red Sox, he briefly retired and spent the 2007 season managing Boston's Single-A affiliate, the Greenville Drive. He returned to play three more seasons in the big leagues in 2008. His final two seasons were spent with the Tampa Bay Rays, and that's where Kapler first struck up a relationship with Friedman, who was Tampa Bay's general manager. After failing to make the Dodgers in 2011, Kapler retired for good and went on to serve as a part-time consultant for the Rays. From there he moved into broadcasting as a television analyst for Fox Sports. It was in that role that Kapler's stock seemingly rose not...