With Major League Baseball news limited to front office promotions, minor league and international signings, and negotiations towards a new Collective Bargaining Agreement just beginning, we fans are left with the suppositions of baseball journalists and pundits that soon morph into rumors. One rumor that continues to circulate is the Dodgers interest in signing 32-year-old, […]

According to this tweet by MLB Network‘s Jon Heyman on Wednesday morning, the MLB Players Association is expected to offer a counterproposal to the one submitted to them by MLB last week, which, of course, they overwhelmingly rejected. Heyman adds that the union’s counterproposal towards establishing a new Collective Bargaining Agreement and (hopefully) bringing an […]

When former – and popular – Dodgers General Manager Farhan Zaidi left the organization to assume the role of President of Baseball Operations for the San Francisco Giants after the 2018 season, Dodgers current – and popular – President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman did not replace him for the 2019 season. …or the 2020 […]

  *  *  *  “Unless Friedman overwhelms Turner with an extension offer, it is likely that Turner will determine his value on the open free-agent market. Then the question becomes whether the team will trade Turner rather than keep him for 2022.”   *  *  *  *  That is how we ended the ‘Trea Turner […]

Okay, I admit it, that headline is a little (or a lot) misleading. But if you are a pure stat person, it is actually (and factually) correct. …sort of. On Friday afternoon, MLB Trade Rumors posted this on Twitter: Although right-hander Yefry Ramirez finished the 2021 season with a perfect 0.00 Earned Run Average as […]

As a surprise to absolutely no one, the Major League Baseball Players Association rejected Major League Baseball’s first proposal towards establishing a new Collective Bargaining Agreement on Thursday morning, which, of course, would bring an end to MLB’s (thus far) six-week-long players lockout imposed by the league on December 1, 2021. According to numerous media […]

In baseball, the absolute greatest compliment a fan can give to a member of an opposing team is that they ‘hate’ them. Obviously, this has nothing to do with them personally or away from the game. It simply means that they, for the most part, owned your favorite team. (Okay, maybe except for confirmed cheater […]

Late Tuesday morning it was reported that Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association had met for the first time since the league imposed a players’ lockout on December 1, 2021; this following the end of the existing Collective Bargaining Agreement. And though there is still much work to be done to establish a […]

Back in the day (as they say), it was required reading for American Literature students; a book-length poem entitled ‘The People, Yes’ written by award-winning journalist/author Carl Sandburg in 1936 about impending World War II. In the poem, a little girl uttered the line: ‘Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.’ The line was said as […]