In less than 24 hours, two Dodgers pitchers made rehab starts for the Advanced Single-A Rancho Cucamonga Quakes. The difference between the two – and it’s a big one – is that the first one on Saturday evening was 32-year-old right-hander Brandon McCarthy‘s first and the second one on Sunday afternoon was 29-year-old left-hander Hyun-jin Ryu‘s […]

Dodgers right-hander Brandon McCarthy took the mound in an actual game for the first time in 14 months with the Dodgers Advance Single-A Rancho Cucamonga Quakes on Saturday evening and, for the most part, he is pleased with the results. “Not bad,” said McCarthy, who underwent Tommy John surgery on April 30, 2015. “Very aware that it […]

There’s a pretty good chance that you will never get anyone in the Dodgers front office to openly admit that any one series during the course of a 162-game season is “the biggest series of the year.” However, you’d have a very difficult time trying to convince anyone that they aren’t at least thinking that this […]

As so often happens these days, relatives of former players tend to make their way into professional baseball. Such was the case on Thursday evening when Gavin Lux, the nephew of former Toronto Blue Jays 1982 first-round draft pick Augie Schmidt, was selected by the Dodgers in the first round of the 2016 MLB First-Year Player […]

This is the 51st year of the First Year Player Draft that was instituted in 1965 to attempt to seek a more competitive balance among major league baseball teams. Regardless of how long it has been a team building process it still provides much excitement and hope for all MLB teams and their fans. Dodger […]

There is no kind or gentle way to put it – the Dodgers offense sucks. When your starting pitchers allow a grand total of 10 runs on 24 hits over the course of a three game series and your offense puts up only five runs on 10 hits, your team is not destined for the […]

When the Dodgers signed Cuban defector Alex Guerrero to a four-year / $28 million contract on October 21, 2013, they did so believing that he would be the heir apparent to (then) 36-year-old veteran Mark Ellis as their everyday second baseman. It never happened. In fact, Guerrero – a former shortstop with the Lenadores de Las Tunas […]

When you look at the official numbers you will see that there were 40,525 on hand at Dodger Stadium to witness 19-year-old left-handed phenom Julio Urias make his Dodger Stadium debut on Tuesday night. But by this time next week, there will probably be some three million who will claim that they were there. …but not because of Julio Urias. It […]