Ask Dodger fans who their team’s best postseason reliever has been over the past four seasons and their answers will be unanimous: 31-year-old right-hander Kenta Maeda. In fact, it isn’t even close. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the extremely popular Senboku-gun, Japan native, who the Dodgers signed on January 7, 2016 as […]

It is a title that is not taken lightly – ‘Future Hall of Famer.’ Dodgers left-hander Clayton Kershaw has it. Angels centerfielder Mike Trout has it. Rockies third baseman Nolan Arenado has it; as do a handful of others. But at only 24 years of age and with only three major league seasons under his […]

    *    *    *    Editor’s Note: We at ThinkBlueLA.com make every effort to avoid “I / Me” opinion pieces. Obviously, there are times when this simply is not possible. This is one of those times.     *    *    *    It was right around this same time of year – late November – 2002. I was […]

Being considerably older than 35 years of age I can absolutely positively assure you that 35 is not old … unless you are a major league baseball player, that is (although I most certainly wouldn’t tell that to 46-year-old Bartolo Colon). So why on earth, then, would the Dodgers even be considering replacing soon-to-be (on […]

For anyone who actually believed that former Dodgers general manager and current Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi was actually going to select anyone other than former Dodgers director of player development and former Philadelphia Phillies manager Gabe Kapler to replace retiring future Hall of Fame manager Bruce Bochy, I’ve got some prime swampland […]

Are you over 2017?  I can tell you that I’m not.  I thought I was getting close, but then Tuesday’s Ken Rosenthal/Evan Drellich piece in The Athletic (subscription required) stabbed another fork in my blue-bleeding heart. If you haven’t heard by now, during their championship season of 2017, the Houston Astros had an electronic system […]

The Dodgers welcomed approximately 350 active and retired members of the United States military and their families into an under-construction Dodger Stadium on Monday for a day filled with playing catch and batting practice on the field at Dodger Stadium, photos and autographs, and of course Dodger Dogs as part of their Veteran’s Day Batting […]

Just as it has at 57-year-old Dodger Stadium, construction has begun at 19-year-old Oracle Park (formerly AT&T Park, formerly SBC Park, formerly Pacific Bell Park) in San Francisco. The big difference – and it is significant – is that the changes underway at the home of the Giants could – and probably will – help […]

Gavin Lux, Joe Davis, Fernando Valenzuela, Ron Cey and more to appear     *    *    *    The Dodgers will play host to approximately 350 active duty service members of our nation’s Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard and their families on Monday, November 11 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Dodger […]

Although anything can happen in the wacky world of Major League Baseball (and usually does), by all appearances, at least as of this moment, it looks as though popular 58-year-old Dodgers bench coach Bob Geren will remain as such. For now. While it came as a surprise to absolutely no one that the former Yankees […]