When a then 22-year-old Yasiel Puig hit the baseball scene at Dodger Stadium on June 3, 2013, he bought with him an excitement and enthusiasm that the baseball world had not seen in decades – or ever. In fact, in his Major League debut, he went 2-for-4 as the Dodgers leadoff hitter in their eventual […]

Ok, I admit it – that title was intentionally misleading. The ‘closer issue’ that I am referring to would be in the form of a closer on an opposing team – more specifically, on their most-hated division rivals, the San Francisco Giants. It was reported by MLB Trade Rumors (a great website and Twitter follow, […]

When we launched ThinkBlueLA.com more than a decade ago, first as an interactive fan forum and eventually into a full-blown website, we, more specifically, Scott Harvey, the technical brains behind our operation, created it so that every article written by our passionate staff of writers would not only post directly onto this website, but would […]

Go ahead, fill in the blank. The Dodgers do not have a more important 2023 roster decision. Join in the prognostications of MLB analysts Jim Bowden, Ken Rosenthal, John Heyman, Jon Morosi, and others, as they stoke the 2022-23 Hot Stove season with this Dodgers dilemma. The free agency of Trea Turner has the potential […]

The Dodgers and Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation (LADF) will partner with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, Brotherhood Crusade, UCLA Health, and local bottler, Reyes Coca-Cola for two very special Thanksgiving community events this week. The first event will take place on Wednesday, November 16 as the Dodgers and the Los Angeles County […]

To say that Dodgers outfielder Cody Bellinger had a poor 2022 season would be very kind. The painful truth is that the 27-year-old Scottsdale, AZ native and Dodgers fourth round draft pick in 2013 out of Hamilton High School in Chandler, AZ was awful in 2022, and he would be the very first to tell you […]

This past Thursday, Major League Baseball announced their Silver Slugger Award winners for the 2022 regular season, as voted on at each defensive position by MLB managers and coaches in each league. As a surprise to few (if any), the 2022 National League Silver Slugger Award winners at the shortstop position and one of the […]

There is a saying that is as old – or older – than the game of baseball itself: “Never throw good money after bad.”  On Friday afternoon, Dodgers President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman may have done just that. May have. It was widely reported shortly after noon on Friday that the Dodgers had picked […]