Archive for March, 2024

Might There Be a New Staff Ace on the Dodgers Horizon?

With all due respect to 36-year-old Dodgers future first ballot Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw, there might be a new Staff Ace on the radar of the Dodgers insanely good pitching staff, and his name is Bobby Miller. A bold statement after making only one start in the Dodgers four-game-old 2024 season, and after only […]

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Missing Vin on Opening Day

Another home opener has come and gone, and the 2024 season has begun. Although the day was filled with sunshine, pomp and circumstance and ended with a Dodger win, I could feel that something was missing. I joyfully listened as the public address announcer introduced this year’s team on a beautiful Thursday afternoon in front […]

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A Future Great

On Wednesday, the Los Angeles Dodgers announced that 29-year-old Dodgers Catcher Will Smith had agreed to a 10-year/$140 million contract extension that will keep him in the beloved Dodger Blue through the 2033 season. The Louisville, Kentucky native Smith bats with impressive power with a .263 career batting average, a .358 career on-base percentage, and […]

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Dodgers ‘Showed Up’ For Home Opener

There is nothing like Opening Day at Dodger Stadium. Absolutely nothing. And even though Thursday’s game against the St. Louis Cardinals was the third game of the 2024 season for the Dodgers, who already played two games against the division-rival San Diego Padres at the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday was the […]

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It’s SHOW Time!

The Dodgers will open its regular season home schedule tomorrow in the first of four games against the St. Louis Cardinals at Dodger Stadium as part of Opening Week, presented by Bank of America. The Boys in Blue began the 2024 campaign internationally by splitting two games against the San Diego Padres in Seoul, South […]

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Dodgers Sign Smith to 10-Year Extension

Under the category of ‘Great News,’ it was reported on social media early Wednesday afternoon that the Dodgers had signed extremely popular catcher Will Smith to a 10-year / $140 million contract extension. The report was confirmed a short while later by the Dodgers. Over his thus far six seasons with the Dodgers (including the […]

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Boy Did He/We Need That

Twenty-six-year-old Dodgers second baseman Gavin Lux entered Tuesday’s final 2024 Spring Training game against the Angels of Anaheim at Angel Stadium having appeared in 12 of the Dodgers 20 Spring Training games, with 35 at-bats. And even though he had 10 hits in those 35 ABs for a .257 batting average with seven runs scored […]

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Meaningful

Spring Training games have long been referred to as meaningless games, and understandably so. They have no bearing whatsoever on the MLB regular season standings or stats, nor on who will ultimately represent their respective leagues in the World Series. But prior to Monday’s meaningless Spring Training game between the Los Angeles Dodgers of Los […]

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It’s Miller’s Time

If there were any doubts about 24-year-old Dodgers right-hander Bobby Miller being ready for the 2024 regular season, there certainly shouldn’t be now. All the Elk Grove Village, IL native and Dodgers first round draft pick in 2020 out of the University of Louisville did in his final tune-up of the Spring in Game-1 of the […]

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Some Days It Rains

As Angelenos know all too well, 2024 has been among the wettest on record, especially for those living in the Palos Verdes region of the Southland. And wouldn’t you know it, there is a chance of rain, albeit slight, in today’s forecast right around 4 p.m., when the Los Angeles Dodgers of Los Angeles and […]

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