Archive for 2012

Scary Smart

I knew that Zack Greinke was smart. I mean, you can talk to anyone who has ever spoken with him before and they will tell you this, most notably his last two managers Mike Scioscia and Ron Roenicke. But at Tuesday’s press conference at Dodger Stadium where Greinke was formally introduced to the media, I heard him speak in person for the […]

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Dodgers Introduce Hyun-jin Ryu

I arrived at Dodger Stadium on Monday afternoon for the formal introduction of the newest Dodger with three different ways to pronounce his name… and I left with five. So to keep things as less confusing as possible for everyone here on ThinkBlueLA.com, I’m going to stick with the way that it was pronounced in […]

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Greinke Officially a Dodger

Having successfully passed his physical on Monday afternoon, the Dodgers announced the signing of right-handed pitcher Zack Greinke to a six-year contract. The announcement was made by Dodger General Manager Ned Colletti. “As we set out this off-season to add a front line pitcher who is capable and proven, Zack was the one we zeroed in on,” said Colletti. […]

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Greinke Brings Cerebral Thinking to the Mound

Prior to Saturday evening’s announcement that the Dodgers had signed free agent right-hander Zack Greinke to a record-setting 6-year/$147 million deal, I happened to be listening to MLB on XM and caught a replay of a brief interview with Angels manager Mike Scioscia from the Winter Meetings in Nashville. And while I always enjoy listening […]

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Got Heem!

No, not Brian Wilson… Ryu Hyun-jin – the newest member of the Dodgers. UPDATE: The deal is reportedly a six-year/$36 million deal and includes innings-based incentives worth $1 million per year, which could bring the total value of the contract to $42 million. Additionally, Ryu can opt out of the contract after the fifth year of […]

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Who Cares?

As a life-long Dodger fan which, of course, makes me a life-long Giants hater, I find the excessive media hype about the Giants re-signing Angel Pagan, Marcos Scutaro and Jeremy Affeldt quite humorous. The bottom line is, who cares? I understand and (unfortunately) painfully accept that when you win the World Series, you are the […]

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Zack Greinke is a Dodger

It’s on every Dodger blog site and sports media outlet in the universe, so I’m not going to belabor the issue here; but just in case this is your first stop along the World Wide Web, Zack Greinke signed with the Dodgers on Saturday evening. Here’s the breakdown: Six years / $147M $12M signing bonus […]

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A Passion within a Passion

Even if I have never met you before or have never even spoken with you before, I already know two things about you: 1) You are very passionate about baseball because if you weren’t, you probably wouldn’t be reading this right now, 2) You probably have some type of passion within your passion for baseball, such as memorabilia collecting, […]

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Time Running Out for Dodgers to Sign Ryu Hyun-jin

When the Dodgers won exclusive bidding rights for South Korean left-hander Ryu Hyun-jin back on November 10 for a cool $25.7 million, it was pretty much expected that nothing would happen until shortly before the December 9th 2 PM (PT) negotiation deadline. The reason, of course, is because the 2012 Winter Meetings would not end until Thursday afternoon, […]

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Moving Day

If history has taught us anything about the annual Winter Meetings, it’s that the biggest deals usually go down on the Thursday of the week-long event. If you recall, the Angels’ Albert Pujols / C.J. Wilson combined $331.5 million deal went down on Thursday at last year’s Winter Meetings, as did several other big deals. Now whether this has to do with […]

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