With spring training 2016 about to head into its third week, the first round of cuts are only days away, perhaps as early as Monday. And while it is never a pleasant task to tell someone that their services are no longer needed in big league camp, everyone knows that the cuts are necessary, not […]

Minor league baseball prospects are the life blood for major league baseball. Regardless of their prospect status each minor league player plays a significant role in keeping the feeder system for MLB teams alive. If the prospects are the life blood of professional baseball then the scouts that uncover them are the oxygen that infuse […]

Leyendas Sports Marketing, in conjunction with Detroit City Sports and the Optometry Office of Dr. Alex C. Liu, will be hosting an exclusive paid autograph signing event with Dodgers legend and 1988 World Series hero Kirk Gibson. The event will be held on Memorial Day, Monday, May 30, 2016, from 11 am to 12:30 pm at the office […]

It has happened again. The Dodgers traded away a guy who appears to be destined for greatness, just like they did Hall of Famers Roberto Clemente, Pedro Martinez, Mike Piazza, future Hall of Famer Adrian Beltre and 18-year MLB veteran and six-time All-Star Paul Konerko. This time it was 25-year-old top outfield prospect Scott Schebler, who the […]

Will there ever be a female major league baseball player? The quick answer is “no” because the barriers to cross are too great. That is, gender, cultural and the physical barrier with males being so much larger and in most cases stronger than females. However, females have slowly been breaking down MLB barriers with the […]

The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation (LADF) announced today its third consecutive season of Dodgers RBI. LADF will expand programming to serve more than 6,000 players at 35 locations including Compton, South Los Angeles and Venice. Three Dodgers RBI sites will launch in Inglewood. Additionally, with the support of Nike, Dodgers RBI will also launch in […]

Edith Houghton is largely recognized as the first female scout in MLB to fly solo. That is, to work totally on her own and not in partnership with another scout. Houghton had been a child prodigy at 10 years of age when she became the regular starting shortstop of the Philadelphia Bobbies – a team […]

It’s not a matter of if it will happen, it’s a matter of when. But make no mistake about it – it will happen. Chase Utley is going to get drilled by a Mets pitcher this season. Why? Because that’s the way things are and always have been in the 147-year history of Major League Baseball. […]

It was undoubtedly the biggest phone call of his young life. Then 24-year-old right-hander Ross Stripling was notified that he was a non-roster invitee to the Dodgers 2014 major league spring training camp in Glendale, Arizona. It was the phone call that every minor leaguer dreams of getting and Stripling had. Stripling was selected by the Dodgers in […]

I expect most of us feel rather confident in saying that baseball is a man’s game. That undoubtedly is because at its highest levels – minor league baseball and major league baseball – it is played exclusively by men. However, I expect we might be at risk making that claim to three young women who […]