Archive for December, 2021

Speedy Old Friend Alert

On Saturday afternoon, ESPN’s Jeff Passan reported on Twitter that 33-year-old one-time Dodgers fan-favorite Dee Strange-Gordon had agreed to a minor league deal with the Washington Nationals. As Passan notes, minor league deals are allowed during the ongoing MLB lockout. That said, there is an exceptionally good chance that the Windermere, FL native and fourth-round draft […]

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MLB’s Remaining Unsigned Free Agents

As expected, due to the ongoing Major League Baseball lockout (and as of this writing), there are still 282 unsigned MLB free agents – an enormous number which probably will not change much until a new Collective Bargaining Agreement is reached between MLB and the MLB Players Association. Although this is a very fluid situation […]

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Scherzer Admits Being Unhappy With Dodgers System

There are many Dodgers fans who thought – or at least hoped – that Dodgers President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman would pull out all the stops to re-sign 37-year-old future Hall of Famer Max Scherzer after the 2021 season, during which he went 7-0 with a stellar 1.98 ERA as a Dodger. He did […]

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Dodgers Select Three in Rule-5 Draft

Suffice to say, Dodgers President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman has a knack – and a reputation – for finding the proverbial ‘Diamond(s) in the Rough’ when it comes to discovering talented baseball players and prospects. Granted, he personally may not discover them all, but he arguably has one of the best scouting staffs in […]

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Are Dodgers About to Lose Their Bench Coach?

When former MLB catcher Bob Geren became the Dodgers bench coach on December 2, 2015, the (then) 53-year-old San Diego, CA native and former first-round draft pick in 1979 by the San Diego Padres did so with five years of managerial experience, having served as manager of the Oakland Athletics from 2007 to 2011 with a […]

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Gil Hodges – Hall of Famer

Beloved longtime Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Gil Hodges is a Hall of Famer. Finally. In what has been the single longest snub in the 82-year history of the Hall of Fame, the Princeton, IN native will finally receive baseball’s highest honor. On Sunday afternoon, it was announced on social media that Gilbert Raymond […]

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The MLB CBA – A Broken Covenant

  *  *  *  “Baseball is too much of a sport to be a business and too much of a business to be a sport.” Philip K. Wrigley – Chicago Cubs owner 1932-1977   *  *  *  *  Baseball is a wonderful game, whether played by youngsters on sandlots, high school and college competitors, or […]

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Heartbreakers

It hasn’t been easy being a baseball fan lately; more specifically, being a Dodgers fan. With a flurry of off-season free agents signings before MLB owners locked out the players on Wednesday evening, there has been considerable heartbreak among the Dodgers faithful. Without question, 27-year-old free agent shortstop Corey Seager leaving the Dodgers for a […]

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Deck the Ballpark

Beginning on the Friday after Thanksgiving, Dodger Stadium was transformed into a Winter Wonderland of lights and other beautiful seasonal decorations for the 2021 Dodgers Holiday Festival currently underway in the Centerfield Plaza through December 31, 2021. If you are lucky enough to spend an evening at the ballpark this December, you will see and […]

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The Night Baseball Died – Again

As of 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, December 1, 2021, and after 152 years, Major League Baseball, as we knew it, is officially dead … again. Under his direction as MLB’s 10th Commissioner, Robert D. Manfred Jr. posted this – in its entirety – on social media shortly after 9 p.m. Pacific Time, thereby invoking a […]

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