The second annual Frank Robinson Celebrity Golf Invitational to benefit the Major League Baseball Urban Youth Academy will be held Monday, Nov. 10 at Wilshire Country Club. Proceeds from the event will be used to support a comprehensive educational program and for improvements at the MLB Urban Youth Academy in Compton. For information regarding playing […]

For most people the baseball off-season is a much-needed break from the grind of a 162-game season, a breather away from our six-month-long national pastime, a time for teams to refocus and rebuild for next season, which seems so very far away. But the truth of the matter is that opening day 2015 will be here before […]

Atlanta Braves outfielder Jason Heyward has been named the recipient of the overall 2014 Wilson Defensive Player of the Year Award. In addition, the Cincinnati Reds received the award for Defensive Team of the Year. The winners were announced on Wednesday night on MLB Network. The American League Champion Kansas City Royals have two players […]

On Tuesday, former Dodger great Eric Karros celebrated his 47th birthday. Karros, as you know, is the Los Angeles Dodgers all-time home run leader with 270 round-trippers – an average of 22.5 per season. Karros spent 12 seasons with the Dodgers and then one each with the Chicago Cubs and Oakland A’s before retiring in […]

Just when it appeared that the Dodgers might not have a general manager to send to the annual general managers meeting scheduled for next week in Phoenix, it appears now that they do. Dodgers beat reporter Ken Gurnick tweeted late Tuesday afternoon that Oakland A’s assistant general manager Farhan Zaidi has been hired by Dodgers new […]

It was funny for a while, perhaps even quite a while, but it’s probably safe to say that most Dodger fans no longer think that Brian Wilson and his whole ‘Fear the Beard’ shtick is funny anymore. It’s also probably safe to say that most Dodger fans aren’t particularly thrilled that former Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti agreed to […]

In the big scheme of things a one-year / three to four million dollar MLB contract for a 28-year-old Gold Glove second baseman is a steal – especially when you consider that the Dodgers have a half dozen guys on their roster making north of $20 million per year. Hold that thought for a minute. On July […]

On Sunday morning, Fox Sports analyst Ken Rosenthal reported that his sources are saying that the Arizona Diamondbacks are in “listening mode” for offers on catcher Miguel Montero. Now keep in mind that this is the same Ken Rosenthal whose sources told him in May of 2013 that Dodgers manager Don Mattingly would probably be […]

It was a cleaver nickname: The Jacksonville Five – a play on words from the legendary Motown pop group The Jackson Five which, of course, eventually gave us superstar Michael Jackson. But The Jacksonville Five weren’t musicians, they were five top Dodgers prospects who played for the (then) Dodgers Double-A affiliate Jacksonville Suns in 2005 – catcher […]

I was only seven years old at the time but I was already a Dodger fan for life – and he had a lot to do with it. The date was September 8, 1961. It was a Friday night so my parents let me stay up late listening to Vin Scully’s call of the game on […]