Baseball Commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr. announced on Wednesday that Major League Baseball has awarded the 2020 All-Star Game and accompanying All-Star Week festivities to the Los Angeles Dodgers.  The 2020 Midsummer Classic will be the 91st edition in the event’s history, which dates back to 1933. This marks the fourth time in franchise history that […]

Remember way back when Dodgers right-hander Kenley Jansen – often called the best closer in the game today – blew a save, lost a game, and gave up two extremely rare home runs over a period of eight days? Yeah, me neither. Ok, maybe that’s not entirely true. Fact is, after his first three appearances […]

Unlike 2.2 billion of my fellow human beings, I have intentionally avoided opening a Facebook account. It’s not that I have anything personal against Facebook’s multi-billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg who, coincidentally, is currently testifying before Congress over privacy and security issues, it’s just that I have always preferred the more direct ‘Breaking News Now’ approach of getting the latest […]

The Dodgers will open their second homestand of the season tonight, and will take on the Oakland Athletics (April 10-11) and Arizona Diamondbacks (April 13-15) for five games that include great promotions, fireworks and Sunday’s Jackie Robinson Day festivities. The Dodgers will kick off the homestand by hosting the Athletics in Los Angeles for the […]

Prior to Sunday’s exciting 10-inning 2-1 win over the San Francisco Giants at AT&T Park, Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen had appeared in three games, during which he had an 0-1 record, a blown save, a 12.00 ERA and had given up two home runs; something that he did only five times in the 65 games […]

The date was Sunday, July 30, 2017. A then 26-year-old Kyle Farmer, who had been selected by the Dodgers in the eighth-round round of the 2013 MLB First-Year Player Draft out of the University of Georgia and who had been called up to the Dodgers two days earlier but had yet to make his MLB […]

Technically, 27-year-old Dodgers right-hander Wilmer Font is not a rookie. In fact, the 6′-4′ / 265-pound La Guaira, Venezuela native is into his fourth major league season, two with the Texas Rangers (2012 and 2013) and into his second with the Dodgers (2017 and 2018). That being said, the hard-throwing right-hander has appeared in a grand total of […]

Seven games in does not a season make for the Dodgers. So, too, does not one game in for the team’s minor league affiliates. However, if what we saw on Thursday’s minor league Opening Day is any indication, it’s probably safe to say that Dodgers director of player development Brandon Gomes, general manager Farhan Zaidi, and […]