The list of the Dodgers minor league participants at their Camelback Ranch spring training facility has been released, complete with the numbers assigned to each aspiring player. I scanned through the list, relatively quickly, looking to see if first baseman Lars Anderson had again been signed to a minor league contract by the Dodgers. He […]
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Meet Dodgers non-drafted free agents Curry, Duester and Stolo
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Ryu hoping to duplicate McCarthy’s outstanding performance
March 11th, 2017 at 9:33 am by Ron Cervenka Although it was fun watching the Dodgers decimate the Texas Rangers in front of a sellout crowd of 13,077 at Camelback Ranch on Friday night – unless you are a Rangers fan, that is – the reality is that even though the Dodgers had the eventual 12-2 win in the bag after only four batters, […]
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Friday night’s ‘meaningless game’ a big one for Brandon McCarthy
March 10th, 2017 at 11:00 am by Ron Cervenka When Dodgers left-hander Scott Kazmir was pulled after his first warm-up toss in the second inning of his second “meaningless spring training game” (as they are often called … ad nauseam) on Monday, it brought into focus several extremely crucial things: First and foremost, it raised the question as to whether or not the 33-year-old […]
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Spring training providing great opportunity for Shea Spitzbarth
March 10th, 2017 at 6:00 am by Jacob Rudner In the words of the great Vin Scully: “There will be a new day, and eventually a new year. And when the upcoming winter gives way to spring, rest assured, it will be Time for Dodger Baseball.” Alas, spring training is here just as Scully assured us it would be, and Dodger baseball is once […]
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$6.5 million donation allows Jackie Robinson Museum construction to begin
March 9th, 2017 at 6:08 am by Ron Cervenka On Monday evening, it was reported by Yahoo Sports that an enormous and extremely generous $6.5 million gift had been presented to the Jackie Robinson Foundation during the foundation’s annual awards dinner in New York City. The Jackie Robinson Foundation was founded in 1973 by Rachel Robinson, the widow of the Hall of Famer who […]
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KTLA to air 10 Dodger games this season
March 8th, 2017 at 12:47 pm by Ron Cervenka Remember the good ol’ days when you could turn on your television and flip to Fox Sports West or Prime Ticket – or even occasionally KCAL 9 – and watch every Dodger game during the regular season; this before the advent of what was billed as the greatest (and certainly most expensive) regional sports network […]
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Is Kershaw’s no-hitter really ‘meaningless?’
March 8th, 2017 at 6:00 am by Ron Cervenka We hear it almost every day: “Spring training games are meaningless games.” And while we all get that from a statistical and standings point of view this is an undeniable fact, the simple truth is that for true baseball fans and even more so for players desperately trying to make their team’s Opening Day or 40-man roster, […]
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Is Roberts’ plan for Sergio Romo the right one?
March 7th, 2017 at 7:30 am by Ron Cervenka Let’s face it, when the Dodgers signed veteran free agent right-hander Sergio Romo, it came with a lot of mixed feelings for Dodger fans. First and foremost, he was one of them – a member of the Hated Ones, including several years as the Giants closer. Secondly, he had pretty good success against the Dodgers over his […]
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Gutierrez running out of time to right his ship
March 6th, 2017 at 6:00 am by Ron Cervenka We hear it every year around this time – “Spring training games are meaningless games.” And while some front office people, coaches and some members of the media may buy into this age-old assessment, it’s probably safe to say that spring training games are anything but meaningless for hungry baseball fans and even more so […]
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WBC creating opportunities that otherwise would’t exist
March 5th, 2017 at 7:00 am by Ron Cervenka Under normal circumstances, this Monday – March 6 – would be an unpleasant day for players in spring training camp as non-roster invitees. This is right around the time that many MLB teams would be making their first round of what is normally three or four rounds of cuts; that dreaded day when many of the […]
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