While it is always a risk in comparing one player and his circumstances to another, sometimes the temptation to do so is just too strong to overcome. Their personal backgrounds are always different and their paths to major league baseball simply are never absolute parallels even if they should be raised in the same family […]

It’s hard to argue that the pitching staff of the Oklahoma City Dodgers isn’t a formidable one – both their starters and relievers. After all, we’re talking about guys named Julio Urias, Ross Stripling, Jose De Leon, Jharel Cotton, Logan Bawcom, Ian Thomas … and so on. But if you look about two hours to the […]

Drillers right-hander Chase De Jong continued his strong pitching on Tuesday evening in a home game against the Frisco RoughRiders. In two of his past three starts he had pitched seven shutout innings and allowed a total of three hits in those two games while striking out 15 and walking three. In the fifth inning […]

If I had been consulted by Dodgers general manager Farhan Zaidi a few days ago regarding which three players should immediately be promoted in the Dodgers minor league system by Monday I would have selected Julio Urias, Kyle Garlick and Scott Griggs. There may be other worthy candidates for upward movement, such as Tim Locastro […]

Right-hander Brock Stewart was selected by the Dodgers in the sixth round of the 2014 First Year Player Draft out of Illinois State University. From a baseball family, he had been picked by the New York Mets in the 40th round of the 2010 June Draft along with his older brother Luke, who was a […]

Last December the Dodgers engineered a three-way trade in which they sent prospects Scott Schebler, Jose Peraza and Brandon Dixon to the Cincinnati Reds. The Reds in turn sent All-Star third baseman Todd Frazier to the Chicago White Sox leaving many Dodger fans wondering why Andrew Friedman didn’t just complete a two-way trade with the […]