This is the deadest time of the year in sports. None of the Big 4 sports are playing, as MLB games don’t resume until Friday. But, there is the Triple-A All-Star game I’m sure everyone — or no one — is looking forward to. PCL IL 4:00 pm PT Durham, N.C. CF Orlando CF Carrera RF…
You know, the Dodgers and Red Sox once went more than four decades barely dealing with one another at all. Between 1960′s Nelson Chittum for Rip Repulski swap — and tell me you don’t remember that one — and Dave Roberts going to Boston in 2004, the only trade between the two was the Dodgers acquiring…
Between all of the Derek Jeter hype, the purposefully bad pitches, and the completely inexcusable lack of a tribute to Tony Gwynn, there were some Dodgers in the All-Star Game tonight. Yasiel Puig, Clayton Kershaw, Zack Greinke, and Dee Gordon – four of the players who will be most responsible for trying to push the…
When you think about great moments in All-Star games, there’s one that quickly comes to mind for me. In Seattle, in 2001, Baltimore shortstop Cal Ripken was playing in his final All-Star game. In his first plate appearance, he took the first pitch from Dodger pitcher Chan Ho Park and crushed it out of the…
Mailbag! Send us more questions using the form to the right, or to thedodgersdigest at gmail dot com. Wayne: I’m mystified as to why Coletti doesn’t bring up one of the highly touted prospects ie. Seager to fill in for one of our veteran players when they go to the disabled list, even if it’s for…
Earlier tonight, Chad wrote something very, very smart: Puig enters with a .915 OPS, but only 12 homers. And he’s in the middle of a pretty bad homer drought, with only one since May 29. So the hype shouldn’t be all that significant, but it’s Puig and it’s bat flips and it’s the big stage,…
In about an hour, Yasiel Puig will embark on the toughest quest of his baseball career. Learning to control his aggression, making adjustments at the plate, and perfecting his prized bat flip technique are all easy compared to what he’s being asked to do today: not humiliate the Dodger franchise in the Home Run Derby….
It’s the All-Star break, and while Yasiel Puig is participating in the Home Run Derby tonight, I know you really just want to read about Dodger prospects. So, here is my midseason Top 25 prospect update. Just a heads-up: the write-ups aren’t as in-depth as the ones I did in the preseason. I just try to…
Julio Urias and Corey Seager represented the Dodgers well in Sunday’s Futures Game in Minnesota. Urias pitched in the fifth inning of the game, and did nothing to dispel the hype he’s getting. He was at 92-94 MPH with the fastball in his 14-pitch outing. He touched 95 MPH on the MLB Network radar gun,…
If it wasn’t for the Dodgers’ outstanding starting pitching, the narrative heading into the all-star break would be much different than what it probably will be. Sure, the Dodgers won 1-0, but if they hadn’t pulled out victories in the final two games there would be a lot of complaints about the offense (which remains…