Quite simply, there is nothing better than watching the game of baseball when played at the highest level by amazing athletes who possess the combination of skills and abilities not required in any other sport. Unfortunately, baseball fanatics had to wait almost nine months after the last out of the 2019 World Series to watch […]

On Monday evening, it was reported on social media that Dodgers 2020 Compensatory Round-B draft pick Clayton Beeter had been added to the Dodgers 60-man Players Pool – although there was no official confirmation of this from the team. That confirmation came on Tuesday afternoon when Dodgers manager Dave Roberts was asked during his daily […]

In a highly unexpected and unprecedented move, the Dodgers have (apparently) added 21-year-old right-hander Clayton Beeter to their 60-man Player Pool. Then again, just about everything that is happening in the MLB – and the world – is unprecedented these days. Late Monday night, @MLBPipeline tweeted out that the Fort Worth, TX native, whom the Dodgers acquired […]

Late Sunday evening, it was reported on Twitter that the Dodgers had signed their one remaining unsigned draft pick from the COVID-19-shortened five-round 2020 MLB First-Year Player Draft held on June 10. Ironically – but not surprisingly in today’s social media-driven world – that word came from the draftee himself, 21-year-old right-hander Clayton Beeter, who […]

One of the most difficult parts of professional baseball is often the least publicized – the times when teams release minor leaguers. Each year, right after Major League Baseball’s first-year player draft, hundreds of minor league players find themselves cut adrift by their respective teams. Poof!, they’re gone; as if part of a David Copperfield […]

The Dodgers have announced their player pool for the 2020 season, including 28 pitchers, five catchers, seven infielders, seven outfielders, and four infielders/outfielders. The group of 51 includes all players on the 40-man roster, seven players that attended Spring Training-1 as Non-Roster Invitees, and four additional players within the organization. Pitchers Gerardo Carrillo, Josiah Gray, Michael Grove, Andre Jackson, Marshall […]

With the 2020 MLB First-Year Player Draft in the book – and a thin book it is – the process of contacting and negotiating with eligible* undrafted amateur players began on June 14, at noon PT. Just a few hours later, the Dodgers signed their first undrafted free agent under the rules, right-handed pitcher Robbie […]

“It is what it is.” The expression may be hackneyed from decades of use, but it seems on-target in regard to the 2020 MLB First-Year Player Draft; a five-round draft rather than the normal 40, with deferred bonus payments for signees, $20,000 max bonus for free agent, un-drafted amateurs. While the majority of professional baseball […]

Five rounds, six selections and the Dodgers 2020 MLB First-Year Player Draft is in the books. Even though the team picked next to last in each round, the draft class is another talented group that includes four quality college pitchers, a talented switch-hitting college catcher, and an athletic high school centerfielder. Considering the Dodgers scouting […]

At 6:54 PM PT on June 10, 2020, University of Louisville right-handed pitcher Bobby Miller’s name was read by MLB commissioner Rob Manfred as the Dodgers first selection in the 2020 first-year player draft. In early April 2020, Baseball America had slotted Miller as the 29th best player who would be available in the June […]