It has long been said that “Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.” …and baseball. In a Sunday afternoon Sportsnet article by Ben Nicholson-Smith, the popular baseball writer noted that the offer made to two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani and his agent Nez Balelo of CAA Sports by the Toronto Blue Jays was “right there” […]

It is usually pointless to worry about off-season transactions made by teams other than your favorite team; unless, of course, that other team happens to be one of your favorite team’s division rivals – say, like, the San Diego Padres for the Los Angeles Dodgers. It was being widely reported late Wednesday morning (and later […]

Whether you liked him or not, and let’s be honest here, most Dodgers fans did, 35-year-old former Dodgers right-handed reliever Joe Kelly will be back in Dodger Blue on Opening Day 2024 – if he passed his physical, that is. During his combined four seasons with the Dodgers, the popular Anaheim, CA native and third round […]

Judging by what is still being reported by nearly every major MLB sports outlet, the Los Angeles Dodgers are still the lead horse in the Shohei Ohtani sweepstakes for what is expected to be the largest contract in MLB history. Or are they? Early Saturday morning, LA Times Dodgers beat writer Jack Harris reported (via […]

Throughout our respective lifetimes, things occasionally happen for which there is simply no logical explanation, no rhyme or reason. For those of us who are believers, we often refer to these instances as ‘divine intervention.’ Make no mistake about it, longtime Dodgers Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully was very much a believer. As we […]

Although it wasn’t the blockbuster breaking news that Dodgers fans have been anxiously waiting for, the team announced on Monday morning that they were bringing back 34-year-old right fielder Jason Heyward on a one-year/$9 million deal, as was first reported on Twitter by ESPN’s Kiley McDaniel. Although the extremely popular Ridgewood, NJ native and first round […]

It’s no secret that the Dodgers are very much in need of pitching help this off-season, especially starting pitching. It’s also no secret that Dodgers President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman has a history of signing (or re-signing) veteran (old) pitchers often overlooked by other teams, a few who actually worked out well for the […]

It was a game changer. An art. A skill. And it was a key to the Dodgers enormous success “back in the day,” as veteran (old) Dodgers fans say today. It is, of course, the stolen base. There is no disputing that today’s opposing pitchers and most certainly today’s opposing catchers work long and hard […]

On Friday afternoon, the Dodgers announced that they had tendered contracts to all 12 of their arbitration-eligible players: For those unfamiliar with this whole tender/non-tender thing, here is the definition from the MLB.com glossary: When a club “non-tenders a player, it declines to give that player a contract for the upcoming season, thereby immediately making him […]