Clayton Kershaw is an eight-year MLB veteran, all of which with the Dodgers. He has won three Cy Young awards and is the reigning National League MVP. But his teammate, Zack Greinke, a one time AL Cy Young award winner who has been a Dodger for only three years, is about to do something that Kershaw […]
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Have a home (run) stand, Adrian Gonzalez
July 13th, 2015 at 6:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka When you look at Dodgers first baseman Adrian Gonzalez‘s stats from the just-concluded 10-game home stand, they are anything but impressive. The 33-year-old San Diego native went 2 for 9 against the Mets (.222), 4 for 15 against the Phillies (.266) and a dismal 1 for 11 against the Brewers (.090) for a combined 7 for […]
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Meet Quakes Newest Starter Chase De Jong
July 12th, 2015 at 9:41 am by Harold Uhlman On July 2nd the Dodgers raided the Toronto Blue Jays farm system poaching shortstop Tim Locastro and right-handed pitcher Chase De Jong. In return the Blue Jays received three international signing slots from the Dodgers allowing Toronto to sign Vladimer Guerrero Junior. In essence both teams got what they wanted. The Jays picked up the […]
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Chin-hui Tsao exceeding expectations
July 12th, 2015 at 6:00 am by Ron Cervenka When Dodgers President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman and general manager Farhan Zaidi signed 34-year-old right-hander Chin-hui Tsao this past March, they knew that they were taking a risk; not just because the former major leaguer hadn’t pitched in the MLB since 2007 (as a Dodger), but because he had a lot of baggage. Tsao, […]
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Dodgers pitching prospect Lindsey Caughel undergoes shoulder surgery
July 11th, 2015 at 3:33 pm by Ron Cervenka Rancho Cucamonga Quakes fans undoubtedly remember him well – hard-throwing right-hander Lindsey Caughel, who was an absolute workhorse for the Quakes during the 2013 and 2014 seasons. A master of control, the (then) 22 and 23-year-old Ocoee, Florida native would routinely go six innings or more in his combined 35 starts over two seasons. He also amassed 193 […]
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Dodgers steal win from Brewers
July 11th, 2015 at 7:30 am by Ron Cervenka Years from now anyone who looks at the box score from Friday night’s exciting Dodgers 3-2 come-from-behind victory over the Milwaukee Brewers will see that it was a huge error by Brewers third baseman Hernan Perez that turned an absolutely dominating should-have-won pitching performance by Brewers right-hander Jimmy Nelson into an eventual loss for the 26-year-old Klamath Falls, Oregon […]
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Greinke near perfect… again
July 10th, 2015 at 7:56 am by Ron Cervenka As if he need one, Dodgers right-hander Zack Greinke came up with yet another reason why he will be baseball’s highest paid pitcher this coming off season. Greinke, who is having the best season of his major league career – including his 2009 AL Cy Young award-winning season, was a Don Mattingly/Tim Wallach defensive shift […]
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Kershaw sends strong message to doubters
July 9th, 2015 at 6:00 am by Ron Cervenka Where are they? Where are all the so-called baseball experts and national media guys who kept asking “What’s wrong with Clayton Kershaw” when he was only 3-3 with a 3.86 ERA and a MLB-best 83 strikeouts at the end of May? Or 5-6 with a 3.20 ERA and a MLB-best 140 strikeouts at the end […]
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Banned Taiwanese pitcher Chin-hui Tsao reportedly called up by Dodgers
July 8th, 2015 at 10:48 am by Ron Cervenka In 1989 Pete Rose was banned from Major League Baseball for life for betting on his team while manager of the Cincinnati Reds. In 2009, exactly 20 years later, Taiwanese right-handed pitcher Chin-hui Tsao was banned from the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) for “match fixing and accepting inappropriate bribes from gamblers and gangsters during his single season playing […]
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Will Cole Hamels be a Dodger by the end of the week?
July 7th, 2015 at 12:34 pm by Ron Cervenka It’s already happened once this season – a team rolls into Dodger Stadium and when they leave town, an across-the-diamond trade has taken place and both teams have a different 25-man roster. Could it happen again this week with the projected biggest prize of this year’s July 31 trade deadline – 31-year-old Phillies left-hander Cole […]
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