The news was exciting and it spread throughout the baseball world like wildfire. On Tuesday morning ESPNLA.com’s Ramona Shelburne broke the news that the Dodgers had successfully lured much-coveted Tampa Bay Rays general manager Andrew Friedman away from the financially strapped franchise and into the Dodgers fold to fill their newly-created President of Baseball Operations position. […]

The Dodgers have announced the hiring of Andrew Friedman to the newly created position of President, Baseball Operations. The club also announced that Ned Colletti will remain with the Dodger organization as a Senior Advisor to the President and CEO Stan Kasten. Friedman, 37, previously served as the Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations of […]

When the Dodgers acquired right-hander Stephen Fife from the Boston Red Sox on July 31, 2011, they weren’t exactly sure what they were getting. But they thought highly enough of him after only six starts with the Double-A Chattanooga Lookouts (3-1, 4.01 ERA) to add him to the 40-man roster to protect him from the […]

Perhaps it’s unfair to compare the Kansas City Royals to the Los Angeles Dodgers, after all, the two teams aren’t even in the same league – literally and figuratively. Literally, the Royals are in the American League and the Dodgers the National League. Figuratively, the Royals had a 2014 opening day payroll of $ 92,185,521 and […]

It’s probably safe to say that if the Dodgers never hear the name Matt again it will be too soon – Matt Kemp notwithstanding. During each of the four NLDS games against the St.Louis Cardinals, one third of their lineup was named Matt and each of the three played a huge role in derailing the Dodgers bid for […]

We all know that hindsight is 20/20 and that second-guessing only adds more frustration to an already frustrating situation. But one has to ask oneself if Miguel Rojas had been brought into game-4 of the NLDS as a defensive replacement for Hanley Ramirez in the top of the seventh inning knowing that heart of the Cardinals […]

A day, a week, a month or even a century from now it will forever be Matt Adams’s devastating three-run home run in the bottom of the seventh inning off of Clayton Kershaw that will be remembered as the turning point of Game-4 of the 2014 NLDS in which the Dodgers were eliminated from the […]

Anyone who has ever spent any time around Clayton Kershaw knows that he is undoubtedly overwhelmed with guilt and sorrow right now. They know that as silly as it sounds he takes full responsibility for bringing the Dodgers run for the 2014 World Series to a halt. They know that he is such a protectionist that he […]

Pitching match-ups. It’s a tactic that no one really ever heard of until the advent of pitching specialists such as a swing man, a set-up man and the ever-popular closer role. The tactic involves bringing in a guy specifically to pitch to a guy’s weakness, such as bringing in a left-hander to face a left-handed […]