One day after losing All-Star third baseman to a fractured left wrist, the Dodgers made several additional cuts to their spring training roster on Tuesday afternoon. The latest to be sent to minor league camp were 22-year-old outfielder Alex Verdugo and 30-year-old catcher Rocky Gale, with Verdugo being optioned (he is on the Dodgers 40-man roster) and […]

Prior to Sunday’s spring training game against the San Diego Padres at Camelback Ranch, veteran writer and baseball guru Eric Stephen from True Blue LA asked Dodgers manager Dave Roberts if he was surprised at how uneventful this year’s spring training has been. In typical fashion, Roberts replied “That’s a good thing, isn’t it?” With no […]

If a now 30-year-old Clayton Kershaw is even remotely close to the one that we saw on his final day as a 29-year-old, the Baseball Writers Association of America might as well inscribe his name on the 2018 National League Cy Young award plaque right now. In a word, the Dallas, Texas native and Dodgers 2006 […]

We all know that what happens during spring training has no bearing whatsoever on who makes it to the postseason and who does not. But the simple truth is, what else do we have to go on as an indicator of who’s hot and who’s not, or even more so, who belongs on the team’s […]

When the Dodgers selected a then 20-year-old Walker Buehler in the first round of the 2015 MLB First-Year Player Draft out of Vanderbilt University, they knew that, in spite of his remarkable success at the college level, there was a pretty good chance that he might soon need Tommy John surgery. He did, and was […]

Now that I’ve got your attention, allow me to add a ‘not really’ to that headline, but it’s a fun story nonetheless. As most loyal ThinkBlueLA followers and certainly anyone who follows me on Twitter (@Think_BlueLA) knows, I have a strong liking towards the popular fast food chain In-N-Out Burger. …Okay, I admit it, it’s […]

Switch-pitcher Pat Venditte added yet another scoreless inning to his spring training résumé on Wednesday night to further improve his chances of breaking camp on the Dodgers 25-man Opening Day roster. “It’s been good so far,” said Venditte. “You want to get off on the right foot any time you’re with a new organization, get […]

It took all of one play for the ball to find Dodgers shortstop Corey Seager in his second game on defense on Wednesday afternoon, as he works his way back from elbow inflammation. “Right off the chute,” Seager said, about the first ball being hit to him in a B-game on Wednesday afternoon. “It’s nice to get ground balls […]

 The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation and national non-profit literacy and mentoring organization Read to a Child today announced that Los Angeles Dodgers alumnus Matt Luke will visit Tenth Street Elementary School tomorrow and read aloud to students in Read to a Child’s Lunchtime Reading Program. The event (which begins at 12:00 p.m.) highlights Read to […]

You won’t find it in any box score or on Baseball-Reference.com. In fact, aside from some obscure chicken scratchings in a coach’s notebook, there is probably no record of it whatsoever. But for the hundred or so Dodger fans who were watching – and enjoying – the minor league intrasquad game between the Dodgers and… well… […]