It has become a thing – the instant every Dodger fan on the planet wakes up, they immediately grab their cell phone, hit the Twitter icon, and scroll down to see if the Dodgers have re-signed beloved (and now 36-year-old) free-agent third baseman Justin Turner or – Lord forbid – another team has signed him. […]
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Turner Situation Could Get Complicated
December 14th, 2020 at 9:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka There isn’t a Dodger fan worth their salt who doesn’t want their beloved team to re-sign third baseman, Justin Turner. But the cold, hard truth is that with each passing day, it is becoming more and more unlikely. How so, you ask? The reason, of course, is that the extremely popular Long Beach, CA native […]
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Dodgers Hot Stove Chatter – Trade for Blake Snell?
December 14th, 2020 at 8:00 am by 0799291000348 Less than one month after the last out of the 2020 World Series, the Tampa Bay Rays informed other MLB teams “they’re open to the idea of” trading 28-year old left-hander Blake Snell (Mark Feinsand of MLB.com). Although the Rays aren’t ‘actively’ shopping the 2018 American League Cy Young award winner, they are sending the […]
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Brock is Back!
December 13th, 2020 at 9:00 am by Ron Cervenka On June 6, 2014, the Dodgers selected right-hander Brock Stewart in the sixth round of the 2014 MLB First-Year Player Draft out of Illinois State University. He was very excited to be a Dodger. …until he wasn’t. On July 31, 2019, the (then) 27-year-old Normal, IL native was snatched off waivers by the Toronto Blue Jays. […]
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Dodgers Announce Coaching Staff for 2021 Season
December 12th, 2020 at 9:00 am by Ron Cervenka The Dodgers announced their Major League coaching staff for the 2021 season on Friday morning, naming Clayton McCullough as their new first base coach and the return of bench coach Bob Geren, hitting coach Brant Brown, third base coach Dino Ebel, hitting coach Rob Van Scoyoc, assistant hitting coach Aaron Bates, pitching coach Mark Prior, […]
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Dodgers-Quakes Affiliation Extended, but…
December 12th, 2020 at 8:00 am by Lauren Jennings Since the 2011 season, the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes have been a Single-A affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2021, that tradition will continue. However, there is a bit of a catch… The Quakes have been a member of the Advanced Single-A California League since 1993, but starting in 2021, the league will drop to […]
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The Right Stuff … And Then Some
December 11th, 2020 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka ThinkBlueLA.com is a Dodgers-based website, plain and simple. Our entire staff of talented writers put in a great deal of time, effort, and energy to bringing you the latest news and information about our beloved Dodgers and their Minor League affiliates from a fan’s perspective. But every now and then, something comes along that isn’t […]
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Dodgers Promote Janet Marie Smith to Executive Vice President
December 10th, 2020 at 11:10 am by Ron Cervenka The Dodgers have announced the promotion of Janet Marie Smith to Executive Vice President of Planning and Development. “Janet has done a tremendous job leading our improvement projects over the last nine years, embracing every nuanced challenge and incorporating Dodger history at every turn. Dodger Stadium has always been the most beautiful place in the […]
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MLB Announces 2020 All-MLB Teams
December 10th, 2020 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka Major League Baseball announced the selections for the second annual All-MLB Team presented by CohnReznick on Wednesday. The first and second teams, which were announced on MLB Network, were determined by a combination of voting from fans and a decorated panel of media members, broadcasters, former players, and other officials throughout the game. Each player […]
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Dodgers Hot Stove Chatter – 2020 Winter Meetings
December 9th, 2020 at 11:00 am by 0799291000348 The 2020 MLB Winter Meetings have gone silent. In place of wandering the hallways, suites, bars, and meeting rooms at the Omni Dallas Hotel and Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Dallas in Dallas, the well-known purveyors of baseball suppositions and rumors have been left grasping for any morsel of gossip available on Twitter, Instagram, Snap, […]
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