One of the more confusing parts of Major League Baseball is free agency; more specifically, the actual rules of free agency as to when it can and cannot occur and what can and cannot be discussed. The rules governing free agency are covered under Article XX-B of the 2012-2016 MLB Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) and let me […]

Pool-gate? I see you? Bat flips? Mickey Mouse? On-field celebrations? No, no, no… you can’t do that! If you do that, you will be punished! …or so it seems. For the second year in a row, the Dodgers were snubbed out of Gold Gloves during Tuesday evening’s televised Rawlings Gold Glove Award winner announcement show on ESPN2. And […]

In his two seasons with the Dodgers, second baseman Mark Ellis has been everything that the Dodgers could have hoped for. He has been superb with the glove and had some clutch at bats, usually in the number two hole. But Mark Ellis is 36 years old and just concluded the final season of his […]

With Dodger fans frantic over the mere thought that opening day 2014 is still more than 140 days away, they can find solace in knowing AM570 Fox Sports LA radio will be airing a live weekly edition of DodgerTalk throughout the off-season every Wednesday night from 7-8 PM. The first show is scheduled for this […]

When the Dodgers signed left-hander Chris Capuano and right-hander Aaron Harang to respective two-year contracts prior to the 2012 season, they did so to fill the void created by not re-signing (then) 36-year-old right-hander Hiroki Kuroda, who wanted a one-year contract in the neighborhood of $12 million. Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti felt that Kuroda was […]

As the Dodgers head into the off-season, they have 12 guys on their active roster who become free agents as soon as the final out of the 2013 World Series is recorded. They are: Chris Capuano Mark Ellis Jerry Hairston J.P. Howell Carlos Marmol Ricky Nolasco Nick Punto Skip Schumaker Juan Uribe Edinson Volquez Brian […]

Early Friday morning the 2013 Rawlings Gold Glove Award nominees were announced. Among those nominated were five Dodgers: Juan Uribe, Mark Ellis, Adrian Gonzalez, A.J. Ellis and Zack Greinke. The Dodgers five nominees are the most of any National League team and second only to the six Baltimore Orioles to be nominated. It’s hard to […]

We all heard the hype and hoopla – ‘Local kid Ricky Nolasco finally gets to play for the Dodgers, the team that he grew up watching at Dodger Stadium as a kid.’ It was fun, it was exciting, it was the ultimate feel-good story… and it is now nothing more than a distant memory. After […]

The 2013 Dodger season came to a screeching halt on October 18th with a rather inept effort against the St. Louis Cardinals. The Dodgers were eliminated from further playoff contention with a 9-0 loss. The next day preparations for the 2014 season began. Less than a week later bench coach Trey Hillman has been fired, […]

In direct conflict with the MLB’s unwritten but long-honored ’embargo rule’ that major announcements are not to be made during the World Series (unless, of course, you are Scott Boras or Alex Rodriguez), L.A. Times Dodger beat reporter Dylan Hernandez tweeted during Game-1 of the Fall Classic that he had received word that Dodgers President […]