Whenever Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman wants to speak with the media, it’s one of those “Drop what your’re doing and get over there” kind of things. Such was the case on Sunday morning prior to the Dodgers series finale with the Atlanta Braves at Dodger Stadium. And though there was zero doubt as […]

It’s a word that we often hear in the game of baseball and it’s as old as the game itself – “adjustments.” Pitchers adjust to hitters, forcing hitters to readjust to pitchers, forcing pitchers to readjust to hitters … and so on and so on. It’s an endless cycle and the good ones – both […]

The date was May 24,2016. During Dodgers manager Dave Roberts’ pregame media briefing, I asked him a very direct question – one that I myself had been asked many times by frustrated Dodger fans: “Are you planning to do anything about the fact that your team is last in the National League and next to last in […]

It wasn’t a matter of if, it was a matter of when. On Sunday morning word spread rapidly that 34-year-old Dodgers outfielder Carl Crawford has been designated for assignment and catcher Austin Barnes re-called from Triple-A Oklahoma City. According to AM 570 LA Sports DodgerTalk host David Vassegh, Crawford has been dealing with health issues since […]

It’s never a good thing to lose a player to the disabled list. …or is it? Just minutes before the first pitch of Friday night’s game against the Atlanta Braves at Dodger Stadium, the team announced that they had placed outfielder Yasiel Puig on the DL for a left hamstring strain and reactivated utility outfielder / first baseman […]

The Dodgers have placed outfielder Yasiel Puig on the 15-day disabled list with a strained left hamstring and reinstated infielder/outfielder Scott Van Slyke from the DL. Van Slyke went 1-for-9 with a double in four games this season before going on the DL on April 10 with low back irritation. The 29-year-old played in eight games […]

Any time you hear that a former Tommy John recipient has landed on the disabled list you immediately fear the worst. Such was the case last Sunday (May 29) when Dodgers right-hander Ross Stripling was placed on the seven-day DL by the Oklahoma City Dodgers. Stripling, as you recall, made the Dodgers Opening Day roster as […]

It’s one of those things that really irks me … well two things actually. Within seconds of suffering his first major league loss on Thursday afternoon, Twitter lit up with armchair general managers proclaiming that the Dodgers front office was: 1) Irresponsible for calling up 19-year-old left-hander Julio Urias when he clearly isn’t MLB-ready, or worse; 2) […]

As a youngster growing up on the east coast of Canada in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia in the early 1950’s, I cut my baseball teeth on Dodger games coming out of Brooklyn. The voice of Vin Scully on radio and the best line up in Dodgers history was more than enough to keep me up late […]

We all know that baseball is a team sport. Or sure, there are times – many, in fact – when a position player or pitcher will have an incredible game that leads their team to victory, but by and large it takes a combined team effort to be successful over the long haul of a […]