The results of the 2016 First Year Player Draft are in and MLB teams have been busy sorting out their new draftees, getting them acclimatized to professional baseball, tending to medical issues, assigning players to their new teams or promoting them already after an initial assignment. However, the door for the 2016 draft is not […]

Wes Helsabeck waited patiently from June 8 to June 10 hoping to hear his name called during the 2015 MLB Draft. During that draft 1,215 players were selected by MLB teams. The then 22-year old left-hander wasn’t one of them. He must have wondered how that many names could be called and his name was […]

The Ogden Raptors are the Dodgers rookie level team in the Pioneer League. Armed with a new coaching staff – manager Shaun Larkin, pitching coach Don Alexander, hitting coach Austin Chubb and coach Pedro Guerrero – and a bevy of new players for the 2016 season the Raptors entered the season with high expectations. Unfortunately, […]

The Dodgers have signed 18-year-old international free agent Ricky Hernandez, a 6′-3″ hard-throwing right-hander from Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. Hernandez was signed through the Diablos Rojos of the Liga Mexicana, where he had been playing for Los Marineros de Ensenada. “He has a big strong frame and hits the mid 90s on the [radar] gun,” said ThinkBlueLA staff writer Robb Anderson, who resides […]

Often times during the development of minor league players they come across a coach or a manager who sees something in them that no one else does or has in the past. For the Dodgers it recently happened with Yasiel Puig during his rehab assignment with the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes. During batting practice, Quakes hitting […]

During the past three days several announcements have been made by the Dodgers. On June 28th it was announced that Dodgers second baseman Willie Calhoun and right-hand pitcher Jharel Cotton have been selected to represent the organization in the 2016 SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game, which will be played at 4 p.m. PT on Sunday, July […]

DJ Peters was selected by the Dodgers in the fourth round of the 2016 MLB First-Year Player Draft out of Western Nevada College. Peters became the highest draft pick in the history of the junior college located in Carson City. The previous highest selection out of WNC was pitcher Dylan Baker who was taken in […]

When I tuned into the Great Lakes Loons game Monday evening I was surprised that the Loons first two hitters were brand new. That is, they were playing their first game with the Loons against the Lansing Lugnuts. It seems the motivation to bring in two new bats at this point in the season was done […]

With the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline a little over a month away, this is the time of year where we begin hearing the word “untouchable.” By this, of course, we’re talking about blue chip prospects within the Dodgers minor league system that have a very real shot at making it the the major leagues […]

Being a professional baseball coach or manager is a lot like Wi-Fi – nobody notices they’re even there until something goes terribly wrong. (h/t to Orange County Register’s Bill Plunkett for that brilliant analogy). Seriously, when was the last time you heard baseball fans clamoring for a manager or coach to be fired on a winning […]