While most Dodgers fans were glued to their television sets watching Dodgers newcomer Chris Taylor come within a step of hitting for the cycle in Friday night’s 13-7 shellacking of the Arizona Diamondbacks – and rightfully so – there were two other members of the Dodgers organization having incredible nights as well. Although it’s almost […]
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A look back at the Dodgers 2016 First-Year Player Draft
July 15th, 2016 at 9:48 am 
by Harold Uhlman The results of the 2016 First Year Player Draft are in and MLB teams have been busy sorting out their new draftees, getting them acclimatized to professional baseball, tending to medical issues, assigning players to their new teams or promoting them already after an initial assignment. However, the door for the 2016 draft is not […]
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Kenley Jansen is going to get PAID
July 15th, 2016 at 7:00 am by Ron Cervenka Benjamin Franklin once said that there are only two things certain in life – death and taxes. But if one of our nation’s most popular Founding Fathers were still around today, he would have added one more certain thing – Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen is going to get paid this off-season. When the Dodgers waited until […]
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Dodgers minor leaguer Wes Helsabeck got the call … twice
July 15th, 2016 at 6:00 am by Harold Uhlman Wes Helsabeck waited patiently from June 8 to June 10 hoping to hear his name called during the 2015 MLB Draft. During that draft 1,215 players were selected by MLB teams. The then 22-year old left-hander wasn’t one of them. He must have wondered how that many names could be called and his name was […]
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Tony Gwynn – As close to perfection as there will ever be
July 14th, 2016 at 6:04 pm by Ron Cervenka Those who follow this site with any regularity know that I try to avoid posting ‘me’ or ‘I’ articles. Those are stories best told over a cold beer or a Dodger Dog at the ballpark. But every now and then something happens that really strikes me emotionally. Don’t get me wrong, I still get very emotional […]
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Where do the Dodgers go from here?
July 14th, 2016 at 8:00 am by Evan Bladh At the unofficial halfway point of the season (+10 games), it is time to reassess the status of the club. This is a Dodger season that has been hampered by injuries and challenges for rookie manager Dave Roberts. Yet, the ball club remains in the hunt when they easily could have been buried by the […]
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Second half rotation probably not what you expected
July 14th, 2016 at 6:00 am by Ron Cervenka As baseball fans, we tend to be big on assigning starting rotation numbers to pitchers. Although there is zero doubt that left-hander Clayton Kershaw is the Dodgers staff ace and their perennial number one, this does little good while he is on the disabled list for a mild disk herniation in his lower back with his return date […]
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Ogden Raptors – Decision time for Dodgers front office
July 13th, 2016 at 6:00 am by Harold Uhlman The Ogden Raptors are the Dodgers rookie level team in the Pioneer League. Armed with a new coaching staff – manager Shaun Larkin, pitching coach Don Alexander, hitting coach Austin Chubb and coach Pedro Guerrero – and a bevy of new players for the 2016 season the Raptors entered the season with high expectations. Unfortunately, […]
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Sports Museum of L.A. to re-open July 16
July 12th, 2016 at 11:00 am by Ron Cervenka IMPORTANT NOTICE: After two months in operation the Sports Museum of L.A. has closed, with no reopening date scheduled at this time. The most spectacular collection of baseball, Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers memorabilia and collectibles anywhere will re-open to the public, Saturday, July 16, at the incomparable Sports Museum of Los Angeles (SMLA), […]
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Has Yasmani Grandal turned the corner?
July 12th, 2016 at 6:00 am by Ron Cervenka It was epic, historic even. On Friday night, July 8, 2016, Yasmani Grandal joined Hall of Famers Roy Campanella (August 26, 1950) and Mike Piazza (June 29, 1996) as the only Dodgers catchers in franchise history to hit three home runs in a single game. But wait, there’s more! In the two at-bats in which the switch-hitting […]
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