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 […]
(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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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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Walks Kill You
October 29th, 2024 at 10:15 am by Ron Cervenka It is a long proven fact that walks kill you. Not the ones you take around the block or in the park, but the base-on-ball type in baseball … unless you are the recipient of those walks, that is. In Monday’s 4-2 Los Angeles Dodgers win over the New York Yankees in Game-3 of the […]
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Dodgers Rebrand Triple-A Affiliate
October 28th, 2024 at 11:15 am by Ron Cervenka As Dodgers fans well know, Oklahoma City has had a longstanding relationship with Minor League Baseball (MiLB), having joined the Pacific Coast League in 1998 and becoming a Dodgers MiLB affiliate in 2015. On Sunday the team announced that they have changed their team name to the Oklahoma City Comets. It is the fifth team […]
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A Costly Win For Dodgers
October 27th, 2024 at 10:11 am by Ron Cervenka The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the New York Yankees in Game-2 of the 2024 World Series at Dodger Stadium on Saturday evening to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven championship series, but it came at an enormous and potentially series-changing cost. With one out in the bottom of the seventh inning, international superstar Shohei […]
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