Baseball is a team sport. It is a sport that is best enjoyed with as many fellow die-hard fans as can be packed into a stadium, especially when joined by family and friends. It is a sport where a home run or other exciting play can turn total strangers into high-fiving fist bumping best of […]

Every year we watch with great anticipation the Mexican representative in the Little League World Series. Almost all of the representatives from Mexico over recent years come from the traditional strongholds of baseball along the northern border or the Pacific Coast. They bring a distinct batting philosophy to the plate and it involves Mexican “baseball […]

When Dodgers newly appointed President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman met with the media for the first time last Friday morning, he didn’t have answers to many of the questions posed to him. Although Friedman did say that current Dodgers manager Don Mattingly would manage the team in 2015, he dodged the question as to who, if […]

During his nine years as general manager of the Dodgers we learned something about Ned Colletti that is as sure as the day is long – he rarely promoted a top prospect to the big club until they had several years in the minors. Sure, there have been a few exceptions – guys like Clayton Kershaw, […]

It is as inevitable as death and taxes – when a team fails to achieve their goal of making it to the World Series, somebody has to take the fall for it. If it’s not the manager himself (or general manager), it is usually one (or more) of his coaches. Should a team’s shortcomings be […]

If you weren’t paying attention you wouldn’t have even noticed he was there – until he spoke. Towards the end of Andrew Friedman’s introductory press conference on Friday morning at Dodger Stadium, Dodgers Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Lon Rosen interrupted reporters questions by saying “You have a question over here.” With that, Dodgers first […]

When Cardinals manager Mike Matheny chose his own ace Adam Wainwright to start the 2014 All-Star Game over Dodgers ace and defending Cy Young award winner Clayton Kershaw, everybody knew it was the wrong decision, perhaps even Matheny himself. But that didn’t prevent the third-year Cardinals manager from starting his own guy saying that Wainwright “deserved it” […]

On Saturday morning the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation, in partnership with the LA84 Foundation, the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation and Security Benefit will dedicate its 35th and 36th Dodgers Dreamfields at Franklin D. Roosevelt Park. The Dreamfield dedication will be attended by Dodger Alumni League members Billy Ashley, Al Downing, Al […]