After more than a week of hearing Dodgers manager Dave Roberts repeatedly say that two-time All-Star, former National League MVP, Gold Glove and Silver Slugger winner, and 2017 NL Rookie of the Year Cody Bellinger would eventually come around at the plate, it appears that the 26-year-old Scottsdale, AZ native and Dodgers first-round draft pick […]

When Dodgers President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman declined to make 34-year-old free agent right-handed closer Kenley Jansen an offer to return to the team for a 13th consecutive season, the Dodgers lost two things: One of the best closers not only in Dodgers history, but in baseball history; The guy with the indisputable single […]

Some just don’t get it and probably never will. Unfortunately, this includes a number of national sportswriters who, quite frankly, don’t have a clue as to what makes 34-year-old Dodgers ace and future Hall of Fame left-hander Clayton Kershaw tick. When it was announced this past week that it would be 27-year-old right-hander Walker Buehler […]

Late Sunday evening, it was widely reported that 42-year-old free agent and future first-ballot Hall of Famer Albert Pujols was returning to the St. Louis Cardinals, the team with whom he spent 11 seasons before spending the next 10 with the Angels of Anaheim and the 2021 season with the Dodgers. The deal is reportedly […]

It seems to happen every year, almost without exception – a player who, for the most part, wasn’t on anyone’s radar prior to Spring Training camp suddenly has tremendous success during Spring Training camp; nobody’s except for Dodgers President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman‘s, that is: the guy who has a proven track record of […]

It is the last line spoken in one of the greatest motion pictures of all time – Casablanca – uttered by the immortal Humphrey Bogart: “Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” But if ever there were a better fit for this timeless classic line, it would be for the Los […]

For only the fifth time in his (now) 15-year MLB career, 34-year-old left-hander Clayton Kershaw will not be the Dodgers Opening Day starting pitcher. Late Thursday morning, it was announced that 27-year-old right-hander Walker Buehler would be the Dodgers Opening Day starting pitcher for the first time in his (now) six-year MLB career on Friday, […]

When (then) 33-year-old right-hander Kenley Jansen left the Dodgers at the conclusion of the 2021 season as a free agent, the Willemstad, Curaçao native did so with the most saves in Dodgers franchise history … by a lot; 350, to be exact. That’s 189 more than Eric Gagné‘s previous franchise record of 161, and a record […]

At the end of the 2021 MLB season, left-handed hitter Matt Beaty had accrued 2.115 years of Major League service time with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Even though Matt slashed .270/.363/.402/.765 during the 2021 season, the odds of him adding to his ML service with the Dodgers in 2022 registered somewhere between slim and none. […]