Between a barrage of injuries and the 40-man roster call-ups of September, several Dodgers minor league prospects had the opportunity to show their stuff and attempt to earn a more permanent spot on the Dodgers 25-man roster next season; or even better – a coveted spot on the postseason roster. Of the six rookie standouts […]

On Monday, the Dodgers celebrated an anniversary of sorts. It was on that day 31 years ago that (then) new MLB commissioner Peter Ueberroth (who had replaced A. Bartlett Giamatti who had died suddenly of a heart attack after only five months as baseball’s commissioner) presented (then) Dodgers owner Peter O’Malley, (then) Dodgers general manager […]

Sometimes when a vague statement like that is made, there is an ulterior motive behind it. This time it may be to get a headstrong player like 32-year-old Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen to opt-out of his 5-year / $80 million contract and simply move on to free agency. Jansen believes himself to be an elite closer. […]

It was a relatively small group of people who I told it to, maybe 10 at the most. It was sometime around May or June – back when many so-called baseball experts were beginning to say that the Dodgers were “on pace to win 104 games” and were going to make it to – and […]

During spring training 2019, Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman said that Will Smith was already a Gold Glove-caliber catcher and would help the Dodgers win important games in the second half of that season. Somewhat of a surprising and bold statement, considering that the then 23-year-old catcher had only played 73-games for the […]

As we try to cope with what I consider to be the most devastating end to any Dodger season I have experienced, let me preface it by saying that I wasn’t alive in ’51 and I was too young to remember ’62. Those two years take the cake when it comes to heart-wrenching season-ending losses. That […]

Attempting to forecast what changes the Dodgers will make in preparation for the 2020 season may be categorized as a fool’s errand, but that’s what we fanatics do during the annual Hot Stove League, which unfortunately started much too early this year. Since Andrew Friedman’s reign as the Dodgers president of baseball operations began on […]

Fact: If you don’t like 29-year-old Dodgers right-hander Casey Sadler, you just plain don’t like people – period. You simply will not find a nicer guy on the planet. And if the Dodgers do not tender the extremely polite Stillwater, OK native a (pre-arbitration) contract this off-season, they will have only themselves to blame and will […]

I will be the first to admit that the Dodgers being eliminated from postseason play in the first round this season was, hands down, the most difficult let down for me as a lifelong Dodgers fan than any other in my many (many) years as such. Yes, this includes that oh-so-painful 2017 Game-7 World Series […]