Outfielder Luke Raley was selected by the Dodgers in the seventh round of the 2016 First-Year Player Draft out of Lake Eric College in Painesville, Ohio. Raley is only the second player to ever be drafted out of Lake Eric College. Versatile infielder, Ryan Rua, was the other drafted in the 17th round of the […]

A year from now no one will even remember it. In fact, most have already forgotten about it less that 24 hours after it happened. But for 21-year-old Dodgers minor league outfield prospect DJ Peters, it is a memory that will last a lifetime. On Thursday night at Angel Stadium, the young Glendora, California native […]

The Dodgers are definitely taking a new approach to their minor league player development system. It’s too early to discern if it is new and improved, but one expects that it may well be. Among other things going on in their minor league baseball program, an emphasis had been made to hire a younger generation […]

It is no big secret that I love the First-Year Player Draft and I follow the players the Dodgers select quite carefully during the selecting season and in subsequent seasons. This great game that at times is so rewarding to young men following their dream, can also turn its back on them in an instant. […]

The 2016 season was, without a doubt, the most exciting for Great Lake Loons fans since the team’s inception in 2007. Not only did they win the Midwest League championship in an improbable fashion, they featured a stable of young pitchers that may not be seen again as a collection for quite some time. It […]

It happens every year around this time and it’s never a happy time. It is the day when the Dodgers officially announce their first round of cuts from major league spring training camp. It is the day that several players – most often non-roster invitees – are either optioned or reassigned to minor league camp, in […]

The list of the Dodgers minor league participants at their Camelback Ranch spring training facility has been released, complete with the numbers assigned to each aspiring player. I scanned through the list, relatively quickly, looking to see if first baseman Lars Anderson had again been signed to a minor league contract by the Dodgers. He […]

In the words of the great Vin Scully: “There will be a new day, and eventually a new year. And when the upcoming winter gives way to spring, rest assured, it will be Time for Dodger Baseball.” Alas, spring training is here just as Scully assured us it would be, and Dodger baseball is once […]

Under normal circumstances, this Monday – March 6 – would be an unpleasant day for players in spring training camp as non-roster invitees. This is right around the time that many MLB teams would be making their first round of what is normally three or four rounds of cuts; that dreaded day when many of the […]

The 2017 baseball season has started and did so on Saturday, February 25 when Clayton Kershaw threw the first pitch of “our” season to the Chicago White Sox leadoff hitter Tim Anderson. The universe had once again righted itself after a seemingly endless off-season. Kershaw went on to pitch a scoreless inning and followed that […]