Dodgers fans know the names well: Nomar Garciaparra, Jerry Hairston Jr., Orel Hershiser, Rick Monday and Fernando Valenzuela. Their voices are almost as familiar to longtime fans as the melodious refrains of retired Hall of Fame play-by-play announcer Vin Scully. But this group also brings an expertise to the broadcast booth that only comes from […]

It was only a spring training game, the first of 33 scheduled to be played by the Dodgers this spring and reason alone not to get too excited about it. But it was also the first Dodger game in 136 days, which was every reason to be excited about it. The game, which was against […]

Suffice to say, by now every baseball executive, baseball player, and baseball fan on the planet is beyond tired of hearing about the Houston Astros sign-stealing scandal. Not a day goes by where we, collectively, do not hear or read something about it … ad nauseam. On Friday morning, longtime MLB manager and 2013 National […]

Dodgers ace and future Hall of Fame left-hander Clayton Kershaw made a franchise-record-setting eight consecutive Opening Day starts from 2011 through 2018, a string that was snapped last season due to inflammation in his left shoulder, for which he began the 2019 campaign on the 10-day injured list. In his stead was extremely popular – […]

The Dodgers open the 2020 Cactus League season on Saturday, February 22, with an away game at the San Francisco Giants spring training facility in Scottsdale AZ, with the first home game at Camelback Ranch in Glendale scheduled for the following day, Sunday, February 23. Finally, after a seemingly endless Hot Stove season that included […]

I have a confession to make. No, I wasn’t involved in the Astros cheating scandal, nor did I test positive for PEDs or anything at all of that nature. My confession – and probably that many Dodger fans – is that I had no idea that ‘Will ‘The Thrill’ Ireton (as he was and is […]

When MLB commissioner Rob Manfred imposed his so-called punishment upon the Houston Astros for the biggest scandal in baseball history (and what will be his legacy as MLB’s 10th commissioner), that punishment penalized every team in major league baseball except the Houston Astros. There is simply no other way to put it. Oh sure, Astros […]

It was a tumultuous time for 30-year-old right-hander Ross Stripling. One minute he was a Dodger, the next minute he wasn’t, and then several hours later he was again. According to social media, the Bluebell, PA native and Dodgers fifth-round draft pick in 2012 out of Texas A&M and 27-year-old outfielder Joc Pederson had been traded […]

During his daily pre-workout media briefing on Sunday morning, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts was his normal upbeat optimistic self, and with good cause. In addition to his entire contingent of 31 pitchers and five catchers who were due in camp this past Thursday, every position player on his 40-man roster and the 19 non-roster invitees […]