What Miami Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria did to the Marlins franchise and to their fans last week is criminal and I honestly feel this was Miami’s plan all along. They signed all these players to these big contracts last year but how much did they actually have to pay out? Hanley was gone by mid […]
(Read More)Kershaw to the Rescue – Again
Under the category of: Thanks, we needed that, Dodgers ace and future first-ballot Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw gave his team what Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said was “…clearly his best outing yet,” in the Dodgers 7-3 win over the NL Central second-place St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium on Sunday. “The command was much […]
Strap In and Hang On
Here’s the deal. Between Friday, June 6 and Thursday, June 19, the NL West first-place Los Angeles Dodgers will play 16 games, with a scheduled off day on Thursday, June 12. Of those 16 games, seven will be against the NL West second-place San Diego Padres – the first three at Petco Park June 9-11, […]
What’s Missing?
The Dodgers are tenuously holding on to first place in the National League’s Western Division, they are loaded with talent – four players are legit candidates for the Hall of Fame. But, there are too many games where fans watch uninspired Dodgers baseball. Foolish errors of omission and commission, hitters flailing away at pitches as […]
Muncy Reaches Milestone
Hitting 200 home runs is a highly respected and significant accomplishment over the course of a Major League career, which, of course, means hitting 201 is even better. During Saturday’s 18-2 pounding of the AL East first-place New York Yankees by the NL West first-place Los Angeles Dodgers in front of a Dodger Stadium crowd […]
Hollywood Stuff
It was as if they had read it from a Hollywood script – and it was epic. With one out and on the third pitch that New York Yankees right fielder and future Hall of Famer Aaron Judge saw from struggling Dodgers right-hander Tony Gonsolin (an 89.7-MPH slider right down Broadway, no pun intended), the […]
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Dodgers Protect Ames and Magill from Rule-5 Draft
November 20th, 2012 at 4:59 pm 
by Ron Cervenka As predicted by our very own ThinkBlueLA resident minor league expert Harold Uhlman, the Dodgers have promoted right-handed pitchers Steven Ames and Matt Magill to the Major League roster, thus protecting them from being drafted by any other MLB team via the Rule-5 draft. Ames, 24, who hails from Vancouver, WA, pitched for Double-A Chattanooga […]
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Rule 5 Draft – MLB Edition
November 20th, 2012 at 4:58 am by Harold Uhlman Today is the day all major league teams must set their 40 man rosters. The Rule 5 draft is scheduled for December 6th during the annual Winter Meetings. Players not on the 40 man roster today are eligible for this draft. The other qualification for the Rule 5 draft is that players must have signed […]
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Where is the Dodgers Money Coming From?
November 19th, 2012 at 7:15 am by Ron Cervenka Like many folks, when the Guggenheim Baseball Management group (GBM) purchased the Los Angeles Dodgers in March of 2012 for an unprecedented $2.15 billion, the most money ever spent for any professional sports team, I had no idea who these people were (well, except for Earvin “Magic” Johnson, of course). Sure, I read about them in newspapers […]
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Leave the Dead Horse Alone
November 17th, 2012 at 12:01 pm by Ron Cervenka This is nuts! This is stupid! This is crazy! This is insane! This is ridiculous! We’ve heard them all. Heck, we’ve even said them all (with and without adjectives). These are, of course, the first reactions whenever the Dodgers, or any team for that matter, sign a player or players for exorbitant amounts of money – whether of […]
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Baseball Passion
November 16th, 2012 at 6:02 am by Ron Cervenka If it wasn’t obvious enough to you in my Rawlings puts the Ball in Baseball article last month, I am an absolute baseball nut; not just about the game of baseball, but about the actual baseballs themselves. I love their appearance, I love their feel, I love their smell… oh I love their smell. I love everything […]
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Down on the Farm – Solar Sox Eliminated from AFL Championship
November 14th, 2012 at 10:25 am by Ron Cervenka To say that the eight Dodger prospects participating in the 2012 Arizona Fall League with the Mesa Solar Sox are glad that the season is winding down is probably a gross understatement. Granted, the eight (outfielder Joc Pederson, second baseman Rafael Ynoa, catcher Griff Erickson, and pitchers Chris Reed, Andres Santiago, Onelki Garcia, Red Patterson, and Eric Eadington) undoubtedly […]
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Dodgers Looking to Re-establish ‘Rookie of the Year’ Dominance
November 13th, 2012 at 10:28 am by Ron Cervenka Longtime Dodger fans are very well aware that it was once commonplace… almost expected for the Dodgers to have at least one rookie in contention for the National League Rookie of the Year title every year, a title that the Dodgers absolutely owned for decades during the O’Malley era (both Walter and Peter). But what was once a seemingly annual […]
(Read More)Dodgers Announce 2013 Coaching Staff
November 13th, 2012 at 10:21 am by Ron Cervenka The Dodgers have officially announced their coaching staff for the 2013 season with eight coaches returning to the Dodger staff as well as three new additions. General Manager Ned Colletti made the announcement. “All of these men have a passion for teaching and coaching,” said Colletti. “They provide a vast array of experience and are […]
(Read More)Dodgers to Host 8th Annual Turkey Giveaway
November 12th, 2012 at 2:37 pm by Ron Cervenka The Dodgers and the Dodgers Dream Foundation will host the eighth annual Community Thanksgiving Turkey Giveaway tomorrow, Tuesday, November 13 from 5:00 to 7:00 PM in Lot F at Dodger Stadium, which is located just inside the Sunset Gate and across from the Dodger offices. Dodger infielder Luis Cruz along with Dodger alumni “Sweet” Lou Johnson, Bobby Castillo […]
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