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BOSTON – The Boston Red Sox hired Bob McClure as pitching coach and moved Tim Bogar to bench coach.

The Red Sox said Friday that Alex Ochoa will be first-base coach on Manager Bobby Valentine’s staff and Jerry Royster will be the third-base coach. Bogar and Ochoa played under Valentine with the New York Mets.

Bogar is in his fourth year with the Red Sox, spending the last two as the third-base coach.

McClure recently joined the Red Sox organization as a special assignment scout and instructor.

He spent the previous six seasons as the pitching coach for the Kansas City Royals.

Ochoa was the hitting coach for Boston’s Class A affiliate in Salem of the Carolina League.

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Royster was most recently the manager of the Lotte Giants of the Korea Baseball Organization from 2008-10.

RED-CUBS: Cincinnati acquired left-handed reliever Sean Marshall from the Chicago Cubs for young left-handed starter Travis Wood and two other players.

It was the second time in a week that the Reds gave up several prospects for pitching help. They earlier sent four players, including Edinson Volquez, to San Diego for starter Mat Latos.

The 29-year-old, 6-foot-7 Marshall was 6-6 with a 2.26 ERA last season. He had five saves. The Reds have been in talks to try to re-sign closer Francisco Cordero, who became a free agent after last season.

“Sean has been one of the best and most durable relievers in baseball the last couple of seasons,” Reds General Manager Walt Jocketty said in a statement.

Wood, 24, made 35 starts for the Reds over two seasons. He finished 6-6 with a 4.84 ERA in 2011, with a stint in Triple-A after struggling early in the year.

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The Cubs also get 24-year-old outfielder Dave Sappelt, who batted .243 in 38 games with the Reds, and 19-year-old infield prospect Ronald Torreyes, who batted .356 in 67 games for Class A Dayton.

ATHLETICS-NATIONALS: Oakland and Washington completed a six-player trade that sent pitcher Gio Gonzalez to Washington.

The deal was announced after the players passed physicals. On Thursday, Gonzalez said the trade was just about done.

The Nationals get Gonzalez and minor league right-hander Robert Gilliam for four players, including three top prospects: catcher Derek Norris, right-handers A.J. Cole and Brad Peacock, and left-hander Tommy Milone.

Gonzalez, 26, went 16-12 last season — a career high for wins — with a 3.12 ERA in 32 starts and was selected to his first All-Star game. He has reached 200 innings the past two seasons.

DODGERS: Fox Sports won a significant victory in its effort to prevent the team from selling the media rights to future games.

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A federal judge in Delaware granted Fox’s request for an emergency stay of a bankruptcy court order allowing the sale process while he considers Fox’s’ appeal of that ruling.

The judge also indicated that he likely will overturn the bankruptcy court’s determination that certain protections given to Fox in its existing contract with the Dodgers were unenforceable in bankruptcy.

Lawyers for the Dodgers and the team’s creditors committee warned the judge on Thursday that issuing the stay could torpedo plans to sell both the team and the media rights by the April 30 deadline included in a settlement between the Dodgers and Major League Baseball.

But Stark noted in his order that it is “undisputed” that the team itself will be sold by April 30, even with entry of the stay, and that the stay will not substantially injure the Dodgers or the creditors committee.

“LAD has no comment other than it will be reviewing the court’s opiniony,” a Dodgers spokeswoman said in an email.

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