On August 20, 2024, 35-year-old 15-year MLB veteran outfielder Jason Heyward hit what many consider to be the single biggest home run of the 2024 season in the Dodgers exciting 6-3 win over the Seattle Mariners, a game-winning 372-foot three-run blast into the visitors right field bullpen in front of a Dodger Stadium crowd of […]
(Read More)No Surprise Here
If you had been asked who you thought would be the first Dodger player to make a donation in support of the massive firefighting efforts in Los Angeles right now, chances are exceptionally good that your answer would have been 35-year-old Dodgers future Hall of Fame first baseman Freddie Freeman – and you would have […]
Great Scott!
* * * * * * * Four years, $80 million! Those are the reported contract numbers that 30-year-old free agent southpaw reliever Tanner Scott is seeking to sign with a MLB team. While that may be Scott’s starting point in negotiations, it isn’t an unreasonable expectation considering that MLB is going through […]
All Is Well in the Universe
Early Friday afternoon, the Dodgers officially announced that they had re-signed extremely popular 32-year-old outfielder/designated hitter Teoscar Hernández to a three-year/$66 million contract extension that will keep him in Dodger Blue through the 2027 season. “I was going to do everything in my power to come back. For me, money wasn’t an issue,” the Cotui, Dominican […]
Waiting on Roki Sasaki
Why are January 15 and 23, 2025 dates important to the Dodgers completing their roster for the upcoming MLB season? January 15 is the first day of the 2025 international signing period when all MLB teams reset their respective bonus pools. Signing before the 15th greatly reduces Roki Sasaki’s earning potential as a posted NPB […]
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Pick Your Poison
August 26th, 2024 at 8:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka Even though it (presumably) wasn’t intentional, Tampa Bay Rays left-hander Richard Lovelady hitting Dodgers designated hitter Shohei Ohtani on his left forearm with a 91.8-MPH sinker to lead off the bottom of the eighth inning on a 2-1 count with the scored tied at 1-1 was not a good idea. It did, however, cause the […]
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Bullpen Denies Kershaw … Again
August 25th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka As he has done many times over his brilliant 17-year future first-ballot Hall of Fame career, 36-year-old Dodgers left-hander Clayton Kershaw exited a game with his team in a position to win. As they have done many times over Kershaw’s brilliant 17-year future first-ballot Hall of Fame career, the Dodgers bullpen blew that opportunity, losing […]
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‘The Ohtani Game’
August 24th, 2024 at 1:00 pm by Ron Cervenka Ask any veteran (old) Dodger fan if they remember ‘The Kirk Gibson Game,’ their answer will either be an emphatic “Yes!” or a quizical (and extremely rare) “Huh?” Prior to Friday night’s exciting bottom-of-the-ninth Dodgers 7-3 walk-off win over the AL East fourth-place Tampa Bay Rays in front of a Dodger Stadium crowd of 45,556, […]
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Ohtani Goes Where No Man Has Gone Before
August 24th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka It was never a matter of if, but when. The first part of that when came in the bottom of the fourth inning, when international superstar and future first-ballot Hall of Famer Shohei Ohtani stole his 40th base of the season off of Tampa Bay Rays right-hander Tyler Alexander and catcher Rob Brantly without a […]
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Good News – Bad News
August 23rd, 2024 at 9:45 am by Ron Cervenka For fans of soon-to-be (on August 29) 34-year-old Dodgers utility infielder/outfielder Chris Taylor, Thursday was a good day. For fans of just-turned (on August 9) 35-year-old Dodgers outfielder Jason Heyward, who slugged a game-winning three-run home run just three days ago, not so much. In his thus far 189 plate appearances this season, Taylor is […]
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One To Go
August 22nd, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka On Monday night, international superstar Shohei Ohtani slugged his National League-leading 39th home run of the season, a 396-foot solo shot to right-center field, to help the NL West first-place Los Angeles Dodgers to a 2-1 win over the NL Central second-place St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium. On Wednesday night, Ohtani stole his 39th […]
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It’s Time For MLB To Do Something About CB Bucknor
August 21st, 2024 at 2:00 pm by Ron Cervenka Enough is enough. It’s time for Major League Baseball to do something about 62-year-old (tomorrow) 28-year MLB veteran umpire CB Bucknor, who once again showed why he is among the worst – if not the worst – umpires at baseball’s highest level. Check Bucknor’s rating of his calls during Tuesday’s 6-3 Dodgers win over the Seattle Mariners […]
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Have a Day J-Hey!
August 21st, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka It was a game of which Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said: “That was, shoot, that was probably the highlight for me of the season thus far.” The “that” was an eighth-inning two-out 372-foot game-winning three-run pinch-hit home run by 35-year-old/ 15year MLB veteran outfielder Jason Heyward into the visitor’s right field bullpen in front of […]
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Stone Has Career Night Despite ‘The Kershaw Treatment’
August 20th, 2024 at 9:00 am by Ron Cervenka When 25-year-old Dodgers rookie right-hander Gavin Stone retired 24 Seattle Mariners batters over his stellar seven innings of two-hit shutout baseball before receiving any run support, many Dodger fans said – or at least thought – “Oh, great, he’s getting the Kershaw Treatment” – i.e., pitching a career game while his teammates’ bats remain silent. […]
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