The Great Lakes Loons are the Dodgers Low Single-A affiliate in the Midwest League. The team moved to Midland, Michigan in 2007 after completing the 2006 season at the historic Dodgertown complex in Vero Beach, Florida. That kind of bothered me but I got over it. The Loons are the minor league team that I […]

Outfielder Matt Jones was selected by the Dodgers in the 25th round of the 2014 First year Player Draft out of Hutchinson Community College in Hutchinson, Nebraska. He was the 759th overall pick in the draft. Jones was born in Omaha, Nebraska and attended Greta High School in the city of Gretna located about 22 miles […]

Over the past four years the Dodgers have made quite a splash on the Cuban scene. They didn’t just wade into the shallow end of the Cuban pool they jumped off the high dive board into the deepest end of the pool. Jumping off the high board is not just a matter of courage it […]

On January 25th, 2015 I wrote an article in which I listed the players in the Dodgers minor league system whom I felt might have the most potential at their respective positions. Those youngsters were part of a 20-years of age and younger team. From that team pitchers Zachary Bird and Kevin Guzman were traded […]

When it comes to submitting blog articles, I hate getting personal. Travel logs? Yeah, I’ve been guilty of submitting a few of those. Maybe they are interesting to some, or to my family, but the average Joe could care less. So with that in mind I have tried to contain my excitement over a personal […]

When MLB.com’s Jim Callis released his list of top first base prospects late last week, many Dodger fans were both surprised and elated that a Dodger prospect had cracked the top-10. But for those who closely follow the Dodgers minor league teams, the elation was there but not necessarily the surprise. Coming in at sixth on […]

The Dodgers have announced managers for their minor league affiliates for the 2016 season, with Bill Haselman at Triple-A Oklahoma City, Ryan Garko at Double-A Tulsa, Drew Saylor at Single-A Rancho Cucamonga, Gil Velazquez at Single-A Great Lakes, Shaun Larkin at Rookie-advanced Ogden and John Shoemaker skippering the Rookie-level Arizona League Dodgers. Haselman continues his […]

Although there are hundreds of top prospects lists posted annually by the many baseball publications and websites out there, it is impossible to argue that the gold standard is the annual Top-100 Prospects list posted by Baseball America. Without question, what sets Baseball America apart from the rest is the hard work and dedication of national writer Ben Badler, who […]

Anyone who has ever had the pleasure of meeting longtime Dodgers minor league manager John Shoemaker has had the pleasure of meeting the nicest guy on the planet. As such, it should come as a surprise to no one that contrary to popular belief (and Leo Durocher), nice guys do finish first. On Tuesday afternoon it was […]

Several times during Thursday afternoon’s press conference in which Andrew Friedman and Farhan Zaidi repeatedly tried to convince the media that Don Mattingly wasn’t fired and had left on his own accord, they yet again made reference that it is their ultimate long-term goal to “get younger” as opposed to spending even more money on aging veterans. […]