It was a love-hate relationship at best, that of J.D. Drew’s tenuous two seasons as the Dodgers right fielder. If you recall, the Dodgers signed the (then) 29-year-old Tallahassee, FL native to a five-year / $55 million contract on Dec. 23, 2004. But in the fine print of that Scott Boras-crafted deal was an opt-out clause after […]

As most baseball fans know, today, December 8, the 2014 MLB Winter Meetings begin in San Diego, California. And although the Dodgers are not expected to make many trades this week, you can pretty much count on them to make a few. The biggest areas of concern for Dodgers President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman […]

On Friday the Dodgers acquired catcher Ryan Lavarnway from the Boston Red Sox, who had designated the 27-year-old Burbank, CA native for assignment earlier in the week. To make room for Lavarnway on their 40-man roster the Dodgers themselves designated two-year back-up catcher Drew Butera for assignment. Although the move isn’t earth-shattering by any means, is […]

For the most part, the seemingly endless Matt Kemp trade rumors that always pop up this time of year have pretty much been kept in check. But all of that seemed to have changed on Friday morning when a series of tweets from Fox Sports reporter Ken Rosenthal (and his infamous sources) sent the Twittersphere into a […]

It was a classic line, yet it was so very Zack Greinke-esque: “I don’t want to make his head too big, but I thought Stan Kasten was like the smartest guy I’ve ever talked to.” The date was December 11, 2012 and the Dodgers had just officially introduced the (then) 28-year-old Orlando, Florida native as the […]

While Dodger fans waited patiently for their beloved team to tender contracts to A.J. Ellis and seven other arbitration-eligible players, there were a number of other significant players among MLB’s 29 other teams who were non-tendered contracts on Tuesday night. One such player was Braves right-hander Kris Medlen, who missed all of the 2014 season […]

The Dodgers have announced that a contingent of executives will travel to Mexico City on Thursday to attend the annual Premio Nacional de Deportes (PND) ceremony honoring Dodger first baseman Adrian Gonzalez. Gonzalez is the recipient of the 2014 PND, a national sports award presented by Mexico’s La Comisión Nacional de Cultura Física y Deporte […]

When Dodger fans woke up Tuesday morning, their beloved team had seven arbitration-eligible players facing Tuesday night’s 9 p.m. tender / non-tender deadline – pitchers Kenley Jansen and Juan Nicasio, infielders Dee Gordon, Justin Turner and Darwin Barney, and catchers A.J. Ellis and Drew Butera. By noon that number had grown to eight after that Dodgers traded right-handed […]

Tonight at 9:00 p.m. (PT) arbitration-eligible MLB players must either be tendered or non-tendered a contract for the 2015 season. Basically what this means is that if a team wishes to keep an arbitration-eligible player, they must offer (tender) that player a contract or not offer (non-tender) them a contract. If the player is tendered […]