For the most part they go completely unnoticed by most baseball fans, yet they are just as important to the success of every professional MLB player as any trainer, coach or even manager. Their pay is a pittance, especially when you consider the insane amounts of money that their clients make, yet they are every […]
(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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Is This Dodger Team Good Enough to Overcome the Intentional Walks?
May 3rd, 2012 at 7:12 am 
by Evan Bladh Can this statistic be right? Before yesterday’s 8-5 loss to the Rockies, Matt Kemp had not been walked intentionally once this season? I have watched almost every inning of every game this season, and I swear I had seen Kemp get an intentional pass this year. I know there have been a number of “unintentional-intentional walks” that he […]
(Read More)Kemp Named Budweiser NL Player of the Month
May 3rd, 2012 at 7:01 am by Ron Cervenka Los Angeles Dodgers center fielder Matt Kemp has been unanimously voted the Budweiser Presents National League Player of the Month for April. Budweiser, the official beer sponsor of Major League Baseball and sponsor for 24 of 30 MLB clubs, is also the presenting sponsor of the National League and American League Player of the Month […]
(Read More)Dodgers Press Conference Update
May 2nd, 2012 at 2:18 pm by Ron Cervenka Jon Weisman has an excellent recap of today’s press conference on his DodgerThoughts blog – definitely worth a look.
(Read More)New Ownership Vows Commitment to Fans
May 2nd, 2012 at 12:05 pm by Ron Cervenka Over the next couple of days, much will be written and blogged about the sweeping changes promised at today’s press conference by the new owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers, but here is a brief recap of the press conference in a nutshell: Mark Walter: “As much as this is a big day for us, […]
(Read More)Jerry Hairston Jr. Named April’s Top Defender
May 2nd, 2012 at 9:32 am by Ron Cervenka Although Ned Colletti’s fate as the Dodgers’ general manager is still in question with a new Dodger ownership group now firmly in place, his off-season signing of 35-year-old veteran utility player Jerry Hairston Jr. will never be in question and could very well be remembered as one of his best signings as the Dodger GM. On Wednesday, Hairston was […]
(Read More)Dodgers Turn Rout into Cliffhanger
May 2nd, 2012 at 6:43 am by Ron Cervenka Humidor notwithstanding and even though everyone knows that “no lead is safe at Coors Field,” nobody really thought that the team with the best record (and player) in baseball could blow a 7-0 lead against the sub .500 4th place Colorado Rockies; but then, we are talking about the Dodgers and this is Coors Field. For seemingly […]
(Read More)Is Mike Scioscia’s Bullet Proof Vest Off?
May 1st, 2012 at 12:54 pm by Ron Cervenka I know that this is a Dodger blog site and all, but I simply couldn’t ignore all of the chatter on MLB Network Radio’s Inside Pitch with Casey Stern and Jim Bowden on XM radio the past two days. When Stern and Bowden weren’t talking about Bryce Harper (which wasn’t very often), they were talking […]
(Read More)Done Deal – Dodger Sale Completed
May 1st, 2012 at 12:46 pm by Ron Cervenka LOS ANGELES, May 1, 2012 – The Los Angeles Dodgers, Guggenheim Baseball Management LLC (“GBM”) and Frank McCourt today announced the completion of the sale of the Dodgers to GBM for $2 billion. As previously reported, the Dodgers’ new ownership includes Mark Walter as control person, Earvin “Magic” Johnson, and Stan Kasten as CEO of […]
(Read More)Down on the Farm – Relievers
May 1st, 2012 at 7:11 am by Harold Uhlman The Dodger Minor League affiliates have, at this point, quite a few relievers performing very well down on the farm. Their performance, in fact, is overshadowing the expected performance of some of the more highly touted starters. AAA (Albuquerque Isotopes) Josh Wall is the number one reliever in Albuquerque. He gave up two runs in […]
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