DODGERS REPORT

Dodger executives will travel to Florida soon for another round of discussions with city and county officials hoping to keep the team in Vero Beach for spring training. With limited public funding forcing officials in Florida and Arizona to scale back competing bids for training complexes, a club official raised the possibility Friday that the Dodgers might simply defer their decision for a year or two in the hope a more favorable financial climate might develop in either state.

“I think that’s always been an option,” said Fred Coons, the Dodgers’ director of business development. “I don’t know if it can get any better from a public financing standpoint in Florida or Arizona. But there’s no mandate that says we must make a decision [now] because it’s an untenable situation [in Vero Beach].”