The Dodgers have added six experienced scouts to their international team with the signing of Pedro Avila, Gene Grimaldi, Patrick Guerrero, Pat Kelly, Jamey Storvick and Mike Tosar. The six scouts will serve under Bob Engle, who was hired by the Dodgers on November 1 as Vice-President of International Scouting. The Dodgers also named former […]
(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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November 11th, 2012 at 11:02 am 
by Ron Cervenka A few days ago I posted an article entitled Dodgers Need to be Creative to Get Pitching Help; and while I certainly won’t flatter myself into honestly believing that Dodgers GM Ned Colletti actually read the article, he is doing exactly what I suggested that the Dodgers need to do to acquire some much needed pitching help […]
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Down on the Farm – Too Little Too Late for AFL Dodgers Prospects
November 9th, 2012 at 12:17 pm by Ron Cervenka With only six games remaining for the Mesa Solar Sox (five after Friday afternoon’s game), two top Dodgers prospects have suddenly come to life. Unfortunately, it is a matter of too little too late, as the Sox are on the brink of elimination from making it into the Arizona Fall League’s championship game. In fact, their elimination […]
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Enough Already!
November 8th, 2012 at 4:30 am by Ron Cervenka Well, it happened again. This time it was San Diego Padres catcher Yasmani Grandal who tested positive for performance enhancing drugs, and again it was the preferred PED of the 2010s – testosterone. As per the current MLB drug policy, Grandal will receive the customary 50-game suspension beginning on Opening Day 2013. Grandal also used […]
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Dodgers Need to be Creative to Get Pitching Help
November 7th, 2012 at 5:16 am by Ron Cervenka All it takes is one quick look at the list of available free agent starting pitchers this off-season to realize that the list is rather short – especially for top-tier starting pitchers. Once you get past former Cy Young Award winner Zack Greinke and perhaps Kyle Lohse, most available free agent starters are number 3 or number 4 guys […]
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Will Kershaw Soon Be Leaving the Dodgers?
November 6th, 2012 at 5:39 am by Ron Cervenka I bet that got your attention, didn’t it? The unfortunate part is that it could very well happen, and in the not-to-distant future. Allow me to elaborate. Perhaps the only upside to the Giants sweeping the Tigers in four games in the 2012 World Series is that we only had to listen to the oft […]
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Time Heals all Wounds
November 5th, 2012 at 5:46 am by Ron Cervenka With reports earlier this week that former MLB slugger Mark McGwire will most likely become the next hitting coach for the Dodgers, the issue of his (and others) PED use once again moved from the back burner to the front. McGwire, who is coming off three extremely successful seasons as the Cardinals hitting coach during which they won […]
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Down on the Farm – Ynoa Snubbed From AFL Rising Stars Game
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:40 am by Ron Cervenka As frequently happens in just about every level of baseball, good players frequently get overlooked when it comes time to name rosters for All-Star games. Such is the case for Dodgers second base prospect Rafael Ynoa for this year’s Arizona Fall League Rising Stars Game, the league’s All-Star Game. In fact, only one of the […]
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Sid Borgia – A Man that Changed the Course of Dodger History
November 3rd, 2012 at 8:09 am by Evan Bladh The name Sid Borgia is not a household name in Dodgers history but it very well should be. His influence in sports had to do with officiating. Where Borgia really made his mark was in the NBA. He officiated there from 1946-64 and then became the league’s supervisor of officials from 1964-66. When the ABA […]
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Pascual Perez Incident a Reminder that Third World is Still Third World
November 2nd, 2012 at 12:47 pm by Ron Cervenka By now most everybody has heard that former Yankees pitcher Pascual Perez was brutally murdered in his home near Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic during an apparent home invasion robbery. The attack is still under investigation and no arrests have been made in the murder; nor do I expect that there ever will be. Why the cynicism […]
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