With no baseball scheduled to be played any time soon, we have time to consider which players the Dodgers may select in Major League Baseball’s 2020 first-year entry draft. Based upon the recent agreement between MLB and the Players Association, there will be a minimum of five rounds to this year’s draft (possibly more). The […]

Imagine being Ty Haselman, a (now) 22-year-old catcher who was the 1,211th overall player to be selected in the 2019 MLB First-Year Player Draft by Dodgers out of UCLA but elected not to sign, obviously hoping to improve his draft status in 2020 (and yes, he is the son of former major league catcher and […]

Considering the global coronavirus pandemic that is taxing the limits of the U.S. health care system, shortages of basic necessities, borders closing, suspension of schools and businesses, hundreds of thousands of people unemployed, and the uncertainty of the financial markets, baseball should not even be a small blip on the radar of our collective consciousness. […]

Happiness Win or lose, baseball makes me happy. From watching my favorite players make great plays or hit home runs, to seeing a pitcher’s duel unfold before my very eyes. There’s just something about the dirt, the grass, and the crack of the bat that puts me in a great mood. Anytime Visit a baseball […]

With Major League Baseball facing its single-most difficult challenge in its glorious 151-year history, and with the 2020 regular season in (very) serious danger of being canceled, Dodgers – and baseball – fans have only memories to fall back on (and sportswriters to write about) to keep their sense of sanity; most recently, their memories […]

The Dodgers have so much talent and depth that there will be difficult roster decisions before Opening Day of the 2020 regular season. One of the most difficult to date was optioning 24-year-old infielder/outfielder Zach McKinstry to Triple-A Oklahoma City. He not only out-performed utility players Edwin Rios and Matt Beaty this Spring, but also […]

  *  *  *  *  Having a birthday in early March, being able to go to a baseball game on your actual birthday can be pretty hard to come by.  In 2015, I spent my 20th birthday with the Dodgers and the Indians, that is until we ended up in the emergency room after my […]

Let’s face it, it pretty much goes without saying that there are going to be a number of Houston Astros batter hit by pitches during the upcoming 2020 regular season, this in spite of the fact that there will be harsh warnings, ejections, fines and even suspensions against those not skilled in the art of […]

Now that the Dodgers have played fifteen games in 2020 Spring Training we can see the signs that the cream is rising to the top. Pitching: Pedro Baez – 4 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 7 K; Caleb Ferguson – 4.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 3 K; Kenley Jansen – 4.2 IP, 1 H, […]

We live in a remarkable time where we can send people into space for months – or years – at a time, we can text photographs to friends and family (almost) anywhere in the world, we can transplant nearly every organ in the human body, and we can purchase anything online with our smartphones in […]