It has been twelve days since the final out of Game-5 of the 2024 World Series was recorded, making the Los Angeles Dodgers the Champions of baseball. Twelve days. And 32-year-old outfielder Teoscar Hernández still hasn’t been re-signed by the Dodgers for the 2025 season. As Dodgers fans well know, the extremely popular (again) free-agent […]
(Read More)Christmas Hiatus
Things to do, places to go, people to see, hang the stockings, prepare for family gatherings, so I offer these musings for your consideration this week. Dodgers general manager Brandon Gomes recently said: “We’ll continue to try to make moves we feel are needle movers, whether that’s impact moves, or depth moves, all those play […]
One of a Kind
In the game of Major League Baseball, there are good players and there are great players. I mean, let’s be honest here, you do get to baseball’s highest level by being just ok or being a complete flop. And then there are those rare one-of-a-kind / once-in-a lifetime players; those who usually spend eternity enshrined […]
Another Shortstop Option?
The Dodgers have openly – and repeatedly – stated that 32-year-old future Hall of Famer Mookie Betts will be their regular shortstop in 2025. Pardon my skepticism, but after closely following MLB over the last seven decades, similar commitments have been made and then forgotten when team circumstances change; unexpected events that make the original […]
RE-SIGN TEOSCAR HERNÁNDEZ!
No more beating around the bush! RE-SIGN TEOSCAR HERNÁNDEZ! What’s the hold up? He checks every box any team could want from a right-handed power-hitting outfielder who drives in big runs in high-leverage game situations and his leadership intangibles are off the charts. Point to his statistically below-average defense and I will point out his […]
Good For Belly
There is no disputing that during his six seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers from 2017 to 2022, outfielder/first baseman Cody Bellinger was a huge fan favorite. Unfortunately, there is also no disputing that when the (then) 26-year-old Scottsdale, AZ native, Dodgers fourth-round draft pick in 2013 out of Hamilton High School in Chandler, AZ, 2017 MLB […]
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Is There Another Japanese Player In Dodgers Future?
November 9th, 2024 at 8:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka Early Saturday morning, MLB Trade Rumors‘ Anthony Franco reported that the Chiba Lotte Marines of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) league have posted 23-year-old right-hander Roki Sasaki, thereby making him available for MLB teams to court. This, of course, suggests that Dodgers President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman has already been in contact with Sasaki’s […]
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(Almost) The News We’ve Been Waiting For
November 8th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka On Thursday afternoon, MLB Trade Rumors posted the news (and link) on social media that was almost what Dodger fans have been waiting for … almost. The news that Dodger fans have been – and still are – actually waiting for is that the Dodgers have re-signed outfielder Teoscar Hernández, but at least it’s a […]
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Dodgers have a ‘New’ Second Baseman
November 7th, 2024 at 9:30 am by Ron Cervenka Opening Day 2025 for the defending World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers is exactly 131 days from today. And while this may seem like an unbearable amount of time, it will be here before you know it … no, really. When that day finally does come in, of all places, Tokyo, Japan, it will mark […]
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Dodgers Roster Tweaking
November 6th, 2024 at 9:00 am by Jesse Pearce Should the Dodgers be outbid for each of their free agents (other than Clayton Kershaw), fail to sign a substantive MLB free agent from the 2025 class, and stand pat in the trade market, they will still be the overwhelming favorite to repeat as World Series Champions. But the team will not stand pat and […]
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Kershaw ‘Sort Of’ Back
November 5th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka On Monday evening, is was being widely reported on social media that 36-year-old now free-agent future Hall of Fame left-hander Clayton Kershaw would be returning to the Dodgers for the 2025 season … sort of. Although there has been no official word from the Dallas,TX native and first-round draft pick by the Dodgers in 2006 […]
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Here’s Your Sign
November 4th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka It is a sign that made every Dodgers fan smile and every English teacher cringe, and it was prominently displayed during the Dodgers World Series Championship parade in downtown Los Angeles on Friday. But did its author mean: They Aren’t Like Us or They Don’t Like Us? My guess is both, since both very much […]
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How Do You Even Explain This To People?
November 2nd, 2024 at 9:30 am by Ron Cervenka It was incredible and “unbelievable,” as a number of Dodgers players themselves described It. ‘It’ was the estimated quarter of a million people who attended the downtown parade and subsequent Dodger Stadium rally for the 2024 World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday. “I’ll remember this day for the rest of my life,” a […]
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With A Little Help From His Friends
November 1st, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka It is a well publicized fact that 30-year-old international superstar Shohei Ohtani did not re-sign with the Anaheim Angels of Anaheim because he wanted to play for a team that actually had a chance to make it to the World Series. Although the extremely popular Oshu, Japan native slashed a Hall-of-Fame-worthy .274/.366/.556/.922 with 171 home runs […]
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Mission Accomplished
October 31st, 2024 at 10:00 am by Ron Cervenka The Los Angeles Dodgers are the Champions of Baseball. “This is what we said we were going to do and we did it,” Betts said postgame. “Earlier in the day I said if it gets squirrely let me know and I’ll head down there (to the bullpen),” the 30-year-old Lexington, KY native and Dodgers first-round draft […]
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