Well, it happened again. This time it was San Diego Padres catcher Yasmani Grandal who tested positive for performance enhancing drugs, and again it was the preferred PED of the 2010s – testosterone. As per the current MLB drug policy, Grandal will receive the customary 50-game suspension beginning on Opening Day 2013. Grandal also used […]
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Dodgers Need to be Creative to Get Pitching Help
November 7th, 2012 at 5:16 am 
by Ron Cervenka All it takes is one quick look at the list of available free agent starting pitchers this off-season to realize that the list is rather short – especially for top-tier starting pitchers. Once you get past former Cy Young Award winner Zack Greinke and perhaps Kyle Lohse, most available free agent starters are number 3 or number 4 guys […]
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Will Kershaw Soon Be Leaving the Dodgers?
November 6th, 2012 at 5:39 am by Ron Cervenka I bet that got your attention, didn’t it? The unfortunate part is that it could very well happen, and in the not-to-distant future. Allow me to elaborate. Perhaps the only upside to the Giants sweeping the Tigers in four games in the 2012 World Series is that we only had to listen to the oft […]
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Time Heals all Wounds
November 5th, 2012 at 5:46 am by Ron Cervenka With reports earlier this week that former MLB slugger Mark McGwire will most likely become the next hitting coach for the Dodgers, the issue of his (and others) PED use once again moved from the back burner to the front. McGwire, who is coming off three extremely successful seasons as the Cardinals hitting coach during which they won […]
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Down on the Farm – Ynoa Snubbed From AFL Rising Stars Game
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:40 am by Ron Cervenka As frequently happens in just about every level of baseball, good players frequently get overlooked when it comes time to name rosters for All-Star games. Such is the case for Dodgers second base prospect Rafael Ynoa for this year’s Arizona Fall League Rising Stars Game, the league’s All-Star Game. In fact, only one of the […]
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Sid Borgia – A Man that Changed the Course of Dodger History
November 3rd, 2012 at 8:09 am by Evan Bladh The name Sid Borgia is not a household name in Dodgers history but it very well should be. His influence in sports had to do with officiating. Where Borgia really made his mark was in the NBA. He officiated there from 1946-64 and then became the league’s supervisor of officials from 1964-66. When the ABA […]
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Pascual Perez Incident a Reminder that Third World is Still Third World
November 2nd, 2012 at 12:47 pm by Ron Cervenka By now most everybody has heard that former Yankees pitcher Pascual Perez was brutally murdered in his home near Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic during an apparent home invasion robbery. The attack is still under investigation and no arrests have been made in the murder; nor do I expect that there ever will be. Why the cynicism […]
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Down on the Farm – Chattanooga Lookouts Year In Review
November 1st, 2012 at 5:23 am by Harold Uhlman The Chattanooga Lookouts of the Southern League, are a Double-A affiliate of the Dodgers. The present affiliation began with the 2009 season and is extended through the 2014 season. Prior to that the Lookouts had a twenty-one year affiliation with the Cincinnati Reds. The Lookouts actually have a storied history dating back to 1930. In […]
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