The 2017 First-Year Player Draft has come and gone, at least the anticipation and speculation part of it. Right now there is no more mystery regarding team selections, although we still might try to figure out the drafting strategy used by our favorite team. I certainly pay close attention to the first 10 rounds in […]
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Ruiz, May to represent Loons at 2017 Midwest League All-Star Game
June 14th, 2017 at 1:00 pm 
by Harold Uhlman The 2017 Midwest League All-Star Game and related activities are scheduled for Dow Diamond in Midland on June 19-20. The Loons last hosted the All-Star game in 2008 one year after their inaugural season in Midland. The Midwest League Home Run Derby presented by Chemical Bank is scheduled for 7:05 p.m. on Monday, June 19. […]
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Cody Bellinger – What if?
June 14th, 2017 at 12:00 pm by Ron Cervenka It’s a question that we will never know the answer to … not ever. What would have happened if 21-year-old Dodger rookie phenom Cody Bellinger had started the 2017 season on the Dodgers 25-man opening day roster – as those of us who have closely followed the Scottsdale, Arizona native for the past two years […]
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Canadian right-hander Zach Pop drafted by Dodgers
June 14th, 2017 at 6:00 am by Harold Uhlman The First-Year Player Draft in MLB always garners my attention, both leading up to the actual draft day and during draft days. As a Dodger lifer I naturally wait to see who the Dodgers will select during the three days of the draft. Being a Canadian, I also follow players who have at least Canadian […]
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Quakes Peters and Isabel named Cal League All Stars
June 13th, 2017 at 1:30 pm by Ron Cervenka If you have attended or listened to even one Rancho Cucamonga Quakes game this season, today’s news that Quakes outfielder DJ Peters and first baseman Ibandel Isabel being named to the 2017 California League’s All Star team should come as absolutely no surprise to you. Peters, the Dodgers fourth round selection in the 2016 MLB […]
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Dodgers select Jeren Kendall in first round of 2017 MLB Draft
June 13th, 2017 at 6:00 am by Harold Uhlman The Dodgers were spectators in the 2017 First-Year Player Draft during the first 22 selections in the draft. On the one hand, it must have been a bit nerve-racking to see the supposed cream of the crop in the draft being picked off by other MLB teams. On the other hand, going into the draft […]
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Without Kiké’s 13-pitch at-bat, Seager’s grand slam may not have happened
June 12th, 2017 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka It is an at-bat that is still considered one of, if not the greatest at-bat of all time. It is, of course, Alex Cora‘s famed 18-pitch at-bat in which the former Dodger and current Houston Astros bench coach fouled off 14 consecutive pitches off Cubs right-hander Matt Clement before finally ending the epic battle with a […]
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Gonzalez likely headed back to DL, Pederson likely back to Dodgers
June 12th, 2017 at 6:00 am by Ron Cervenka * * * UPDATED June,13, 2017 at 12:00 pm PT * * * It was one of those things that immediately made you say “Uh oh.” When the Dodgers took the field in the top half of the seventh inning of Sunday afternoon’s game against the Cincinnati Reds at Dodger Stadium down 7-3, Dodgers left […]
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Roberts’ decision proves huge in walk-off win – but not why you think
June 11th, 2017 at 9:00 am by Ron Cervenka Saturday night’s exciting bottom of the ninth 5-4 walk-off win over the Cincinnati Reds was the fourth walk-off win of the season for Dodgers manager Dave Roberts’ team and was predicated on a decision made by the defending 2016 National League Manager of the Year … only he didn’t know it at the time. How […]
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Dodgers gear up for 2017 MLB First-Year Player Draft
June 11th, 2017 at 6:00 am by Harold Uhlman It’s that time of year again. That is, time for MLB teams to firm up their scouting reports and get ready to do battle in First-Year Player Draft, just as they have done since the inaugural draft in 1965. The first overall pick is indeed a luxury and every team’s dream but it comes at […]
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