Edwin Rios should heed the advice of Hall of Fame pitcher Satchel Paige: “Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.” In this case, it is not something, but rather someone Rios should be concerned with – in particular, left-handed hitters Matt Beaty, Gavin Lux, and Zach McKinstry. Rios arrived at Spring Training 2021 […]

There has been much ado about MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred‘s decision to change the baseballs that were used during the COVID-19-shortened 2020 season to a new version that will be used for the 2021 season (and are currently being used at Spring Training) for what he says is an attempt to reduce the number of […]

On August 16, 2020, 22-year-old Dodgers catcher Keibert Ruiz hit a line drive down the right-field line off of Angels veteran All-Star right-hander Julio Teheran for a third-inning leadoff home run. It was Ruiz’s first major league at-bat. When the Valencia, Venezuela native and Dodgers top-ranked prospect returned to the dugout, his teammates razzed him, telling […]

Unless you’ve been roving the surface of Mars with Perseverance, you are very well aware that 26-year-old Dodgers shortstop Corey Seager is the hottest player on this planet right now. All the Charlotte, North Carolina native and Dodgers first-round draft pick in 2012 out of Northwest Cabarrus High School in Concord, NC has done in the […]

After a week’s worth of Cactus League games:  Hitters who are raking: Corey Seager is continuing to hit as he did in the 2020 season, slashing .385/.467/.615/1.082 in Cactus League play. Seager appears to be on his way to justifying a potential $300 million contract as a 2021-22 free agent. If he needed any further […]

Since his epic – and historic – final out of the 2020 World Series and through the offseason and the first three weeks of Spring Training, there has been constant talk – and speculation – that 24-year-old left-hander Julio Urías should pitch out of the Dodgers bullpen rather than take up a valuable spot in […]

If you weren’t already a David Price fan, you probably will be soon. After nearly three weeks of workouts and in their ninth Spring Training game, the 35-year-old Murfreesboro, TN native and first-round draft pick in 2007 by the Tampa Bay Rays out of Vanderbilt University made his first appearance of the Spring … as a […]

Savvy Dodger fans noticed two things about 26-year-old right-hander Walker Buehler‘s second Spring Training start on Sunday afternoon. First, he gave up two home runs during his three innings of work; that’s the easy part. The savvy part is that both came while the Lexington, KY native and Dodgers first-round draft pick in 2015 out of […]

Fans who have followed the Dodgers through their first week of Spring Training games have been treated to some phenomenal glovework by 36-year-old/12 year MLB veteran third baseman Justin Turner; we’re talking Gold Glove-caliber glovework here. Those fans are keenly aware that the Long Beach, CA native and seventh-round draft pick in 2006 by the […]

If 30-year-old right-hander Trevor Bauer has taught us anything in his short time as a Dodger, it is to expect the unexpected. The North Hollywood, CA native and first-round (third overall) draft pick in 2011 by the Arizona Diamondbacks out of UCLA has also taught us that although quite a character, he hasn’t lived up […]