The Los Angeles Dodgers Ownership Group has pledged a donation of $50 million to the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation (LADF), the charitable partner of the organization. In addition, Dodger ownership will donate another $50 million if the Dodgers reach the World Series in 2024. The announcement was made at the annual LADF Blue Diamond Gala […]
(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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Andy Pages is Here to Stay
May 2nd, 2024 at 9:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka The Dodgers have played 33 games thus far into the 2024 regular season. Twenty-three-year-old La Habana, Cuba native Dodgers outfielder Andy Pages has appeared in 14 of them and is 16-for-55 (.291), with five doubles and three home runs, which ranks seventh and sixth on the team respectively. He has also driven in 10 runs […]
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Buehler’s Back!
May 2nd, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka Dodgers beat writer Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic posted this on social media following the Dodgers 8-0 pounding of the division-rival Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field on Wednesday night: Needless to say, the return of the 29-year-old Lexington, KY native and Dodgers first round draft pick in 2015 out of Vanderbilt University to the Dodgers starting rotation […]
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The Real Culprit
May 1st, 2024 at 8:30 am by Ron Cervenka It’s tough to bag on the Dodgers when they are standing in first place in the NL West 4.0 games ahead of the second-place San Francisco Giants, 4.5 games ahead of the tied-for-third-place San Diego Padres and Arizona Diamondbacks, and 10.5 games ahead of the last place Colorado Rockies. However, (come on – you knew […]
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Dodgers Pull Off Rare Feat
April 30th, 2024 at 8:04 am by Ron Cervenka On August 28, 2006, the Dodgers did something that ranks right up there as among the rarest of feats in Major League Baseball, perhaps second only to pitching a perfect game. On that warm August evening in front of a Dodger Stadium crowd of 44,176, Grady Little‘s Dodgers had zero strikeouts in their combined 39 […]
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Horseshoes and Hand Grenades
April 29th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka It’s a saying that we’ve all heard (or said) many times in out lives – “Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades” (along with the similar saying “Close, but no cigar”), but they most certainly do not count in the game of baseball. With his team trailing 3-1 and with two outs and the […]
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Be Careful What You (Boo) For
April 27th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka This past off-season before it was officially announced – on social media – that the Dodgers had signed superstar future Hall of Famer Shohei Ohtani to a 10-year/$700-million contract, there were reports – on social media – that the extremely popular 29-year-old Oshu, Japan native had boarded a plane and was en route to Toronto, Canada […]
(Read More)Money Well Spent?
April 26th, 2024 at 11:34 am by Ron Cervenka Needless to say, when the Dodgers signed 25-year-old right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto to a MLB record-setting 12-year/$315.8 million contract on December 27, 2023, it left many (most) Dodgers fans both surprised and shocked. Oh sure, it’s easy to say “It ain’t my money,” but in truth, it actually is. I mean, have you paid to park […]
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Let the Kids Play
April 25th, 2024 at 11:30 am by Ron Cervenka Good thinks happen when you let the kids play. In his second start of the season on Wednesday afternoon against the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park, 26-year-old Dodgers right-hander Landon Knack allowed two runs on two hits, while walking three and striking out five in the Dodgers 11-2 win to earn his first Major League […]
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‘She Is Gone!’
April 24th, 2024 at 9:00 am by Ron Cervenka It is a phrase that Dodger fans love to hear: “She is gone!” It is, of course, a phrase made popular by Hall of Fame Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully to describe a Dodger home run and is still used today by many (most) radio and television baseball broadcasters. On Tuesday evening, extremely popular Dodgers designated […]
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