The Dodgers have signed free agent pitcher Fabio Castillo to a minor league contract. The 27-year-old right-hander began his professional baseball career 11 years ago, when he was signed by the Texas Rangers as a 16-year-old. At that time, the native of Samaná, Dominican Republic had also been on the watch list for the Yankees, […]

The Dodgers have re-signed infielder Drew Maggi to a minor league contract for 2017. He will be heading into his eighth minor league season with his third MLB organization. Maggi was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. He attended Brophy College Preparatory School in Phoenix being one of four Maggi siblings to attend Brophy. After […]

Baseball America has announced that the Dodgers have signed right-handed pitcher Steve Geltz to minor league deal. Geltz graduated from Wilson High School in Wilson, New York and attended the University at Buffalo. He was not drafted out of college but in 2008 he was signed by the Los Angeles Angels as an amateur free […]

(Editor’s note: This is the second of a three-part series by ThinkBlueLA’s minor leagues staff writer Harold Uhlman of his annual 20-and-under team. This year it is broken down into infielders, outfielders and pitchers. The age given is the age as of today’s writing). The 2017 Dodgers 20 and under outfield Alex Verdugo (20) – Center […]

(Editor’s note: This is the first of a three-part series by ThinkBlueLA’s minor leagues staff writer Harold Uhlman of his annual 20-and-under team. This year it is broken down into infielders, outfielders and pitchers). (Author’s note: On January 28th, 2016 I wrote my third installment of the Dodgers 20 and under team, having written the […]

When the final out of the Dodgers 2016 regular season was recorded – a fly out to left field by replacement first baseman Rob Segedin, they finished the season with a grand total of 189 home runs, which ranked seventh in the NL. And even though they had four guys with 20 or more home […]

Right-hander Andre Scrubb was selected by the Dodgers in the eighth round of the 2016 First-Year player draft out of High Point University in North Carolina. Scrubb, one of six siblings, was born in Woodbridge, Virginia and attended C.D. Hylton High School in Woodbridge, where he was a four-year letter winner. In his senior year […]

The off-season search for minor league free agents to fill out minor league rosters is on. It is picking up but certainly isn’t a feeding frenzy. In fact, it might be described as catch and release as teams, and the Dodgers in particular, go through the same process every winter. That is, they sign minor […]

The Dodgers have announced the coaching staffs for all of their minor league affiliates for the 2017 season: The coaching staffs of the Dodgers’ top three affiliates remain intact, while the organization will welcome new managers at Single-A Great Lakes and Rookie-advanced Ogden, in Jeremy Rodriguez and Mark Kertenian, respectively. For the club’s rookie ball […]

When the Dodgers’ Advanced Single-A affiliate Rancho Cucamonga Quakes won the 2015 California League Championship, they did so in huge part because of the outstanding starting pitching by right-handers Chase De Jong, Scott Barlow and Trevor Oaks. But unlike De Jong and Barlow, when Opening Day 2016 rolled around, Oaks found himself as the only one of […]