It is a natural progression and it happens every year right about this time. It is a happy time and a sad time all at once. It is the promotion of Minor League baseball players from one level to the next and it is, of course, exactly what every Minor League baseball player hopes and dreams […]
(Read More)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 […]
Dodgers Make Head-Scratching Move
To say that the Dodgers bullpen is a mess would be a gross understatement. As we all painfully witnessed in Wednesday’s ugly loss to the AL Central second-place Cleveland Guardians at Progressive Field, 30-year-old Dodgers left-hander Tanner Scott not only blew the save of what should have been future Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw‘s first […]
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Down on the Farm – Dodgers Announce June Dodger Pride Award Winners
July 11th, 2012 at 6:49 am 
by Ron Cervenka The Dodgers have announced the June winners of the Dodger Pride Awards. The Dodger Pride Awards were created in 2008 by General Manager Ned Colletti, and are given on a monthly basis to the players at each level of the club’s minor league system who play the game with a hustling, smart, aggressive style. The […]
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2012 Home Run Derby – A Blessing in Disguise
July 10th, 2012 at 1:09 pm by Ron Cervenka Just prior to last year’s Home Run Derby at Chase Field in Phoenix, AZ, I posted a comment over on the ThinkBlueLA.com forum in which I said that Matt Kemp was not a home run hitter. My comment was not intended to dis Matt Kemp or his ability to hit home runs (and I later […]
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Could There Soon Be a Flyin’ Hawaiian at Dodger Stadium?
July 9th, 2012 at 4:56 pm by Ron Cervenka Former baseball GM and current ESPN and MLB Network Radio analyst Jim Bowden recently ranked his top ten players to be traded by the deadline. His list includes the obvious choices such as Zack Greinke, Matt Garza, Ryan Dempster and Carlos Quentin, but of specific interest to Dodger fans is Phillies outfielder Shane Victorino. This […]
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A Much Needed Break
July 8th, 2012 at 11:52 pm by Ron Cervenka You would think that by being in first place at the All-Star break that the break itself would be the last thing that the Dodgers and Dodger fans would want. I mean heck, let’s keep rolling along; let’s keep the momentum going; let’s keep winning, right? Perhaps this would be true if the Dodgers came into […]
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Between Two Palm Trees
July 8th, 2012 at 1:12 am by Ron Cervenka Between Two Palm Trees – Special All-Star Edition
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Third Base Options
July 7th, 2012 at 11:58 am by Ron Cervenka To say that the Juan Uribe experiment has failed is being exceptionally kind. Without going into details that everybody is fully aware of, the Uribe signing has been a complete and utter disaster, not to mention a complete and utter waste of money. How or why Ned Colletti ever thought that the 33-year-old overweight former […]
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Do California Tax Laws Hamper Dodgers from Signing Players?
July 6th, 2012 at 5:33 am by Evan Bladh Do California income tax laws really hamper the Dodgers efforts to sign top name players? It probably did with Carlos Lee. But what many people aren’t aware of is that there are players that are steered away from the Dodgers and towards such destinations as Texas, Florida or Washington because there is no state income tax […]
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Dee Gordon’s Injury Could Have Been Prevented
July 5th, 2012 at 9:46 am by Ron Cervenka The only thing worse than getting injured while playing baseball is getting injured when it was preventable; and make no mistake about it, Dee Gordon’s costly (and undoubtedly painful) thumb injury on Wednesday night could have been prevented – and it has nothing to do with the age-old debate over head-first sliding vs. feet-first sliding. How […]
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Could Latest Uribe Injury be the Break that the Dodgers Need?
July 3rd, 2012 at 9:44 am by Ron Cervenka It is common knowledge that struggling MLB players sometimes find themselves on the disabled list for some type of mystery injury; and while some of these mystery injuries come as a complete surprise and are real head scratchers, most are usually readily accepted with no questions asked. Why? Well the answer to that question is […]
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