For true, dyed-in-the-wool Dodger fans, it is impossible not to keep a watchful eye on what their most hated rivals, the San Francisco Giants, are doing. In fact, it is imperative. As the old saying goes: “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.” Late Monday afternoon it was being widely reported (and later confirmed) […]

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York has a grand total of 319 elected members … that’s it. Among them are 222 former major league players, 30 executives, 35 Negro League players and 22 managers. There have also been 10 umpires who have achieved baseball immortality in the sacred Halls of in […]

With each passing day, we inch one day closer to the beginning of the 2018 baseball season. And with spring training now exactly one month away, baseball fans from across the country (and abroad) are making plans to visit their favorite MLB teams at their respective Cactus League and Grapefruit League spring training facilities in […]

As we all know, you can’t always believe what you see or hear. That being said, listeners of Sunday morning’s The Front Office on MLB Network Radio with show hosts and former MLB general managers Jim Bowden and Jim Duquette were undoubtedly shocked when the pair both projected that former Dodgers rental and now free agent […]

While much of the sporting world was watching 40-year-old ageless wonder and future Hall of Fame New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady almost single-handedly decimate the Tennessee Titans in the NFL Divisional playoffs on Saturday night, another aging veteran was also making headlines. During that lopsided 35-14 football game, it was being widely reported that […]

The date was February 10, 2007; a Saturday morning in the City of Angels. Dodgers left-handed middle reliever Joe Beimel was coming off a 2006 season in which he had posted a 2-1 record and very impressive 2.97 ERA over the 70.0 innings he pitched for the Dodgers in his 62 appearances. The (then) 30-year-old St. […]

In what is clearly among the slowest off-seasons in recent memory, the Dodgers finally – perhaps – struck the first real match of the 2018 hot stove season on Thursday afternoon when they gave one-year contract extensions to catcher Yasmani Grandal and right-handed reliever Pedro Baez, thus avoiding arbitration with the six-year and four-year MLB […]

Even the most casual baseball fan is well aware that the free agent market this off season is crawling along at a snail’s pace. In fact, one host on MLB Network Radio’s Inside Pitch said earlier this week that of the 300+ major and minor league free agents on the market following the final out […]

For Dodger fans old enough to remember, spring training 1966 was unquestionably the most anxious and uncomfortable in the (then) 83-year history of baseball’s most storied franchise. Less than four months after winning their second World Series title in three years, Dodgers co-aces and eventual Hall of Famers Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale refused to […]