Each playoff elimination I seem to take harder each year. 2016 was not an exception to the rule. It took a full week to get up the energy to write a piece. Watching the season end on such a dismal note is always tough to bare, especially after investing so much time into watching the […]

Dodgers right-hander Kenley Jansen has been named as the recipient of the 2016 Trevor Hoffman National League Reliever of the Year Award by Major League Baseball and presenting sponsor The Hartford. Jansen posted a 3-2 record and remarkable 1.83 ERA in 71 appearances this season while converting 47 of his 53 save opportunities. The 29-year-old Willemstad, Curacao native struck out 104 […]

The 2016 MLB season came to a screeching halt for many, if not all Dodger fans on October 22, when their World Series hopes were dashed by the Chicago Cubs. I expect in some quarters there might still be postmortems and “what ifs” going on – especially in the Dodgers front office – but I […]

(Re-posted from October 22, 2015) It’s one of those timeless stories – one that you can imagine Vin Scully telling to your grand kids. You’ve probably heard it a dozen times and even more so within the last week or two because it involves the Chicago Cubs. But if you haven’t heard it before, it’s worth hearing (or in this […]

When former Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti signed South Korean left-hander Hyun-jin Ryu to a six-year/$36 million contract on December 9, 2012, it raised a few of eyebrows. It’s not that this was an outrageous amount of money for a guy who, at the time, was considered to be the best pitcher in the Korean Baseball Organization […]

When the Dodgers traded for veteran second baseman Chase Utley on August 19, 2015, they did so for a variety of reason. The most obvious is that, in spite of his (then) 35 years of age, he was still very much The Man, as he was affectionately called by rabid Phillies fans. But even though the Pasadena, California […]

As expected, Monday’s season wrap-up press conference with Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman and Dodgers manager Dave Roberts on Monday afternoon spent quite a bit of time discussing the pending free agency of several key members of the team and whether or not the Dodgers would be re-signing them. Also as expected, their answers didn’t exactly […]

(Editor’s Note: At the request of several of our readers, here is the timeless essay by former MLB commissioner A. Bartlett “Bart” Giamatti. It is always so painfully appropriate at this time of year).   *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *   “The Green Fields of the Mind” by A. Bartlett Giamatti […]

As the sun rose over the City of Angels on Sunday morning, with it came the cold hard realization that there would be no Game-7 of the 2016 National League Championship Series for the Dodgers. Instead, Dodger fans awoke to the painful truth that the ridiculously lofty expectations that they (and everyone else) had placed on the […]