Remember when we were kids and used to have good old-fashioned staring contests with our friends? You know, the ones where the person who blinks first loses? Well welcome to the 2017 National League West, where the top three teams – the Colorado Rockies, the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Los Angeles Dodgers – are having […]
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Has Logan Forsythe finally turned the corner?
June 19th, 2017 at 6:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka I’ll be the first to admit that with each successive strikeout – and there have been many – I was becoming less and less a fan of Dodgers second baseman Logan Forsythe, who is arguably one of the nicest guys you will ever meet. I mean, in his first 134 plate appearances (110 at-bats) with […]
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Chris Cotton – The new Sheriff in town
June 18th, 2017 at 7:00 am by Harold Uhlman On Friday, June 16 left-hander Chris Cotton was assigned to the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes of the California League by the Dodgers. Cotton had been released by the Houston Astros on March 23 and signed by the Dodgers on April 11. The Shreveport, Louisiana native graduated from Byrd High School in 2009 where as a senior […]
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Alex Wood making life difficult for Joe Maddon … and opposing hitters
June 17th, 2017 at 7:00 am by Ron Cervenka Over the next couple of weeks, Cubs manager Joe Maddon – by virtue of winning the 2016 National League pennant and subsequent World Series – will have several very difficult decisions to make. He must not only select his pitching staff for the 2017 National League All-Star team, but must also decide who will start […]
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Dodgers, LADF to host ‘Play Ball’ event June 20-21 at Dodger Stadium
June 16th, 2017 at 3:51 pm by Ron Cervenka The Dodgers and the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation will partner to celebrate Major League Baseball’s Play Ball initiative by surprising 80 local youth for a wiffle ball game at Dodger Stadium Tuesday, June 20 and treating them to the Dodgers-Mets game the next day on Wednesday, June 21. The 40 participating youth will represent the […]
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Quakes control their own destiny for playoff berth
June 16th, 2017 at 12:00 pm by Ron Cervenka It’s one of the many things that make Minor League Baseball so incredibly fun to follow – having the season divided into two separate halves which, in turn, means that teams can qualify for a playoff berth through either half. Ideally, a team would prefer to qualify for the postseason in the first half so […]
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Andre Scrubb strengthens Loons bullpen
June 16th, 2017 at 6:00 am by Harold Uhlman Right-hander Andre Scrubb was selected by the Dodgers in the eighth round of the 2016 First-Year player draft out of High Point University in North Carolina. Scrubb was born in Woodbridge, Virginia and attended C.D. Hylton High School in Woodbridge, where he was a four-year letter winner. In his senior year with the Bulldogs he […]
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Should Dodgers trade Kenta Maeda?
June 15th, 2017 at 12:00 pm by Jacob Rudner Last off-season the Dodgers pulled out all the stops to sign Japanese superstar Kenta Maeda. They signed him to one of the most team friendly long-term deals ever and it paid off big time. Maeda dazzled in his debut season finishing second in the Rookie of the Year race to his teammate Corey Seager and […]
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Logan White Jr. drafted by Dodgers
June 15th, 2017 at 6:00 am by Harold Uhlman 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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