If you are not on board the Teoscar Hernández train by now, you probably never will be. In Monday’s 3-2 Dodgers win over their much-disliked NL West division rival San Francisco Giants in front of a Dodger Stadium crowd of 49,576, the 31-year-old Cotui, Dominican Republic native, two-time All-Star, and 2024 Home Run Derby champion drove […]
(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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Ohtani Has (Almost) Left the Building
July 22nd, 2024 at 8:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka After a rough top of the first inning in which he allowed a double and a two-run home run on his first three pitches, 35-year-old Dodgers left-hander James Paxton settled in nicely, to finish his 5.0-inning start with a final line of three runs on five hits with four walks and seven strikeouts en route […]
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Best News of the Season
July 21st, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka Moments after their team’s exciting 11-inning 7-6 walk-off win over the Boston Red Sox in front of a Dodger Stadium crowd of 48,129 on Friday evening, Dodger fans received the best news of the season: The news comes one day after Kershaw completed his third rehab start following his November 3, 2023 surgery to repair […]
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Oops
July 20th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka It immediately became another “Remember the time…” moment in Dodgers history. With one out in the bottom of the eighth inning, his team up 1-0, and with runners on second and third, former Dodger and current Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora elected to have 32-year-old Valencia, CA native left-hander Brennan Bernardino intentionally walk Dodgers […]
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The One That Got Away.
July 20th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka In his 10 seasons as the Dodgers President of Baseball Operations, Andrew Friedman has been responsible for the acquisition of some of the best players to ever wear a Dodger uniform, either by trade, free agency, via the MLB draft, or homegrown through one of the best farm systems in the game today. For those […]
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Improbable to Plausible Trades
July 19th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Jesse Pearce As the 2024 MLB trade deadline (6:00 PM ET, July 30) draws closer, we read more and more suppositions regarding Dodgers trade targets. More pitching, adding another outfielder, perhaps a middle infielder. Some baseball experts think the team may make a couple of significant deals before the deadline as they prepare for the stretch drive […]
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Ohtani Gives Fans What They Came To See
July 17th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka It was textbook, and for Dodger fans, entirely expected. In the top of the third inning of Tuesday’s 2024 MLB All-Star Game at Globe Life Field in Arlington, TX, 30-year-old Dodgers designated hitter and international superstar Shohei Ohtani hit a 400-foot three-run home run to right-center field to give the National League a (then) 3-0 […]
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Never A Doubt
July 16th, 2024 at 8:30 am by Ron Cervenka When it was announced last week that 31-year-old Dodgers outfielder Teoscar Hernández had agreed to participate in the 2024 Home Run Derby in advance of Tuesday’s Mid-Summer Classic, there wasn’t a Dodger fan on the planet who didn’t say (or at least think) ‘Well, there’s your winner.’ …and they were right. On Monday evening in […]
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It’s Time
July 16th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Jesse Pearce There is no doubt that injuries have brought the Dodgers back to the rest of the NL West pack. Losing players to the Injured List has been crushing to team performance: Mookie Betts, Ryan Brasier, Walker Buehler, Tyler Glasnow, Joe Kelly, Bobby Miller, Max Muncy, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Clayton Kershaw, who has yet to pitch […]
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Bullpen Squanders Honeywell’s Excellent Dodgers Debut
July 15th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka It was one of those dark cloud/silver lining things. The National League West first-place Los Angeles Dodger lost their second consecutive game on a second consecutive walk-off win by the American League Central fourth-place Detroit Tigers at a sold out Comerica Park by a score of 4-3 on Sunday afternoon, although this one in the […]
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