Dodgers fans are well aware of the bullpen failures during the 2025 regular season, in particular the awful performances of veteran relievers Tanner Scott, Blake Treinen, and Kirby Yates. Collectively, the Average Annual Value (AAV) of those three pitchers was $40M and they were responsible for 15 blown saves, 24 home runs allowed, 70 earned […]
(Read More)No Excuses
Although it has long been known, understood, and accepted that any baseball team can beat any other baseball team on any given day, there are some losses which, quite frankly, are unacceptable and inexcusable. Such was the case in Saturday’s ugly 4-3 loss by the NL West first-place Los Angeles Dodgers loss to the NL […]
The New Babe
It’s one of those things that every Dodger fan – and Shohei Ohtani fan – should be aware of: Here’s the line score and Dodgers pitching stats from of Wednesday’s game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets at Dodger Stadium: And then there’s this: Play Ball! * * * * * *
A Day of Firsts
Long time followers of ThinkBlueLA.com know that we always attempt to keep things objective (based on actual facts and statistics) rather than subjective (based on personal knowledge and experiences), although this is sometimes difficult to do as lifelong, through and through, born and bred, die-hard Dodger fan. Today it gets personal. Lovingly personal. Among the […]
Have (Another) Night, Max Muncy!
There is an exceptionally good chance that the 53,675 on-hand at Dodger Stadium for Friday night’s interleague game between the National League West first-place Los Angeles Dodgers and the American League West first-place Texas Rangers witnesses the single most exciting game of their respective lives – especially for those sporting Dodger Blue. They witnessed 35-year-old […]
“It ain’t over till it’s over”
It is a saying coined many years ago by lovable and immortal Hall of Famer Yogi Berra: “It ain’t over till it’s over.” Truer words have never been spoken, as proven by the 2026 Los Angeles Dodgers, who have seemingly made a habit of pulling a rabbit out of their respective hats in the very late […]
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A Three-Peat in 2026?
January 1st, 2026 at 8:00 am 
by Jesse Pearce Shortly after the Dodgers secured their first ever back-to-back World Series victory, the players were already talking of another World Championship; seemingly, three-peat is the unofficial mantra for 2026. Three-peat isn’t a euphoric fantasy for the Dodgers, this is a team with an incomparable core group of returning stars: shortstop Mookie Betts, first baseman Freddie […]
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