If you are one of the many Dodger fans who follow the team’s minor league affiliates then seeing Dodgers top pitching prospect Jose De Leon win a game is nothing new to you. After all, the 22-year-old Isabela, Puerto Rico native was 4-1 with the Advanced Single-A Rancho Cucamonga Quakes this season with a 1.67 […]

What do Yasmani Grandal, Nathan Eovaldi, Buster Posey, Chase Headley, Billy Hamilton, Sean Doolittle, Pablo Sandoval, Peter Bourjos, Wade LeBlanc and more recently Carlos Correa and Corey Seager have in common? They all represented the California League in the prestigious California League versus Carolina League All-Star Game. The annual event showcases the very best that […]

Play in the rookie level Arizona League began on Saturday, June 20th. The fourteen team league plays its 56 game schedule in and around the Phoenix area at the spring training facilities of their parent major league clubs. The AZL Dodgers play their home games at the Camelback Ranch complex shared by the parent Dodgers […]

When the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes kicked off the 2015 season in search of their first-ever California League Championship as a Dodgers affiliate on April 9, it became very obvious very quickly that this team was special. They had a brand new manager (Bill Haselman), a brand new pitching coach (Bill Simas) and a brand new assistant coach (Rafael […]

The Great Lakes Loons have assured themselves of a postseason spot for the first time since the 2013 season. The Loons play in the Eastern Division of the Midwest League in which both the first place and second place teams in the division earn a playoff berth. The Lansing Lugnuts clinched the division title earlier […]

On June 6, the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes held a substantial five-game lead over the defending 2014 Cal League champion Lancaster JetHawks – due in part by help from rehabbing Dodgers Yasiel Puig and Erik Bedard. But since then, their lead dropped to as little as one game and, as of Friday morning, sits at two games […]

As some fans may know, the Dominican Summer League began play on Saturday, May 30th. Teams in the DSL play a 70-game schedule with six teams making the playoff round – the winner of each of the five divisions and one wild card with the best record. The DSL Dodgers play in the Boca Chica Northwest Division […]

Being selected to the California League All-Star team in not like being selected to the Major League Baseball All-Star team. There are no punch ballots of which fans can submit as many as they are so inclined to punch (although these have been eliminated for the first time this year), nor can you vote on-line […]

Dodgers utility outfielder/first baseman Scott Van Slyke completed his second rehab game with the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes on Sunday and again came away without any issues. “It feels good. It feels like I’m really really close to where I need to be,” Van Slyke said after the game. Whereas Van Slyke was used as the designated […]

Dodgers utility outfielder/first baseman Scott Van Slyke made his first rehab appearance with the Dodgers Advanced Single-A Rancho Cucamonga Quakes on Saturday evening and appears to be on track to return to the Dodgers within the next few days. The 28-year-old Chesterfield, MO native, who was placed on the disabled list on June 2 with mid-back inflammation, was the Quakes designated […]