As a surprise to absolutely no one, 26-year-old hard-throwing Dodgers left-hander Alex Wood and 21-year-old Dodgers rookie outfielder / first baseman Cody Bellinger were named as the National League’s Pitcher and Rookie of the Month respectively for May 2017 by Major League Baseball on Friday afternoon. Here is the official press release from the Dodgers: […]

If you’re a fan of the great game of baseball, and let’s face it, you probably wouldn’t be here if you weren’t, you undoubtedly enjoy witnessing great plays; whether it be an exciting hit or a great catch or throw, or whatever it might be. Now I’ll be the first to admit that I am […]

In 2016 the Dodgers used 15 different starting pitchers. In 2015 it was 16. Through the first 54 games of 2017 – exactly one-third of the way through the 2017 season – the Dodgers have already used seven different starting pitchers. But if I were to ask you to name the Dodgers’ current starting five, […]

For the first time in the 2017 baseball season, the Dodgers woke up on Wednesday morning in first place in the National League West. They did so by winning their sixth consecutive game, including a three-game sweep of the defending World Series champion Chicago Cubs and taking the first two of four from the (seemingly) […]

The internet is a wonderful thing, so much so that we frequently ask ourselves how we ever got along without it. But the simple truth is that history is history no matter how we access it. For those old enough to remember, rarely did a week go by without an Encyclopedia Britannica salesman knocking on […]

There is zero question that the most important player on the Dodgers team is three-time Cy Young award winner and 2014 National League MVP Clayton Kershaw, and we all remember how him landing on the disabled list last season for a mild disk herniation in his lower back affected the team, not to mention Dodger fans. […]

It was one of those things that you won’t find in the box score or on any baseball analytics website. In fact, in the big scheme of things, it had no bearing whatsoever on the final outcome of the Dodgers 9-4 win over the defending World Series champion Chicago Cubs on Sunday afternoon to complete a […]

When a team acquires a player – whether it be through the draft or via trade – it is, in almost every sense of the word, a crapshoot. If it’s through the draft, a team is basing their selections (and dishing out their draft pool money) on the word of a handful of scouts who, […]