We’ve been hearing it all winter long: When the first big name free agent finally signs during this year’s brutally slow off-season, the others will soon follow. But with pitchers and catchers set to report for spring training in just two days, and with 31-year-old free agent right-hander Yu Darvish now off the market having […]
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The other spring training
February 10th, 2018 at 8:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka Most Dodger fans are well aware that pitchers and catchers report for spring training on Tuesday, February 13, 2018, with their first workout the following day. Fans also know that position players will report on Sunday, February 18, with their first full-squad workout also the next day. But what many Dodger fans – perhaps even […]
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Dodgers Spring Training Roster & Jersey Numbers
February 9th, 2018 at 8:30 pm by Ron Cervenka 40-Man Roster (Alphabetical by position) Pitchers 75 Scott Alexander 52 Pedro Baez 71 Dylan Baker 64 Walker Buehler […]
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Kennedy to return to Dodgers broadcast booth in 2018
February 9th, 2018 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka ThinkBlueLA has learned that longtime Dodgers farmhand and former MLB manager Kevin Kennedy will be returning to the AM 570 LA Sports broadcast booth for a fifth consecutive season in 2018, alongside veteran broadcaster and former 19-year major leaguer Rick Monday. “I’ll be working with Rick whenever Charlie [Steiner] is doing the television broadcast for […]
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Puig ‘fired’ by Wasserman Group
February 8th, 2018 at 8:30 am by Ron Cervenka Just when it appeared as though (now) 27-year-old oft-controversial Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig had finally … finally grown up, he reportedly had some sort of transgression that led to him being “terminated” by the Wasserman Group, a highly respected agency that represent some of the biggest names in professional sports, on Wednesday afternoon. Although the […]
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Dodgers partner with American Heart Association and Compton PD for CPR training
February 7th, 2018 at 11:15 am by Ron Cervenka The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation (LADF) has announced its partnership with the American Heart Association (AHA) and the Compton Police Department to give more than 6,000 Compton Unified students lifesaving CPR skills. A $15,000 grant from LADF will make it possible for high school students to receive CPR in Schools training kits developed by AHA, […]
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Shots fired across the bow(s)
February 7th, 2018 at 10:30 am by Ron Cervenka According to a September 14, 2017 report released by the U.S Census Bureau, the median income in the United States was $57,617. According to the Major League Baseball Players Association’s (MLBPA) Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), the major league minimum salary in 2017 was $535,000, which will increase to $545,000 in 2018 and to $555,000 in […]
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Santana facing near-impossible odds – but very happy to do so
February 6th, 2018 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka With the Super Bowl now behind us and the days until spring training now into single digits, fans are beginning to scrutinize the Dodgers 40-man roster (and the 22 non-roster invitees) a lot more than they did perhaps even a couple days ago. And while many of those 62 names are familiar to most Dodger […]
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Is there a six-man rotation in the Dodgers future?
February 5th, 2018 at 11:00 am by Ron Cervenka Let’s face it, today’s game of baseball is not your father’s game. In fact, if anyone had even suggested to your father (or grandfather) that the game of baseball in the second decade of the second millennium would be based more on analytics than on the eyes, ears and instincts of coaches, managers, general managers, […]
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Is what we see what we’ll get with 2018 Dodgers?
February 4th, 2018 at 9:00 am by Ron Cervenka With pitchers and catchers due to report to spring training a little over a week from now, the Dodgers – and most of baseball – have yet to make any major free agent signings; not to mention the fact that one well-known agent is suggesting that there might even be a players’ strike before spring […]
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