Archive for 2018

Dodgers Spring Training Roster & Jersey Numbers

  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

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

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

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)

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

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?

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?

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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The trials and tribulations of non-roster invitees

Make no mistake about it, receiving an invitation to major league spring training camp is a very big deal. It is an opportunity for veteran fringe players and untested minor league prospects their one – and often times only – opportunity to show off their wares, so to speak. For those veteran fringe players, it […]

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Re-signing Chase Utley is low risk / potential high reward for Dodgers

As we flip the calendar over to February and with spring training now less than three weeks away, veteran free agent second baseman Chase Utley is still without a team. Oh sure, one can argue that at 39 years of age, who wants him. But the cold, hard fact is that aside from 31-year-old second […]

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