The Dodgers will once again play host to approximately 300 pre-selected active duty service members of our nation’s Armed Forces representing the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard along with veterans and their families for batting practice at Dodger Stadium on Wednesday, November 18 from 12:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in honor of […]

Dodgers catcher A.J. Ellis is one of those guys that you just naturally assume will always be there. After all, he’s been with the Dodgers organization for every one of his 13 professional seasons – including eight in the major leagues. So when the time comes for his seemingly annual contract renewal, Dodgers fans just, again, […]

When it was announced at the October 22 press conference that Don Mattingly would not be returning as the team’s manager in 2016, Dodgers President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman was asked when he anticipated having a replacement for the former five-year Dodgers manager. “Definitely by the Winter Meetings we expect to have a manager in […]

Although Friday afternoon’s announcement that left-hander Brett Anderson had accepted the Dodgers one-year / 15.8 million qualifying offer (QO) appears to have come as a surprise to some, it most certainly wasn’t to most. In fact, just last week we posted an article here on ThinkBlueLA suggesting that it would be wise for the extremely likable soft-spoken Midland, […]

One of the more colorful and popular characters in Roger Kahn’s epic book The Boys of Summer is Brooklyn Dodgers left-hander Elwin Charles “Preacher” Roe; popular not only to readers of this timeless classic which is still considered one of the best baseball books ever written, but also to those who actually played with him […]

Major League Baseball will host a free, one-day umpire camp at the MLB Urban Youth Academy in Compton, California on Saturday, November 14.  Staff for the event will include many accomplished former MLB Umpires, current MLB Supervisors and Observers, as well as Minor League Baseball Umpires.  Among those participating will be Charlie Reliford, Ed Rapuano, […]

The Dodgers have announced that former Fox and ESPN broadcaster Joe Davis will join their broadcast team for the 2016 season. Davis, 27, is one of the most impressive young broadcasting talents on the national scene, having called Major League Baseball, college football and college basketball for FOX Sports.   Davis will call 50 road television […]

The Dodgers have announced their 2016 Spring Training schedule, with their eighth season of Cactus League play beginning on Thursday, March 3 against the Chicago White Sox at Camelback Ranch. The Dodgers will play 30 spring training games in 2016 with 17 of them being played at Camelback Ranch. Of these 17 games, 15 will […]

It is the single-most embarrassing blemish for the wealthiest team in all of professional sports – the Los Angeles Dodgers – and their team-owned regional sports network – SportsNet LA – with roughly half of the team’s television market area still unable to watch their beloved Dodgers. The reason? A two-and-a-half year long dispute between Time Warner Cable’s SportsNet LA […]