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…
Padres Dodgers 1:10pm PT Los Angeles, CA RF Denorfia 2B Gordon 3B Headley LF Crawford LF Quentin RF Puig 1B Grandal 1B Gonzalez C Rivera CF Ethier CF Maybin 3B Uribe 2B Conrad C Ellis SS Amarista SS Rojas P Ross (R) P Ryu (L) Over the last few days, “Dodgers Digest” has become “Dodgers Outfield Digest,” and…
One of the least-remembered parts of last night’s 1-0 win over San Diego is going to be that Brandon League got through the seventh inning on only seven pitches, keeping a scoreless game tied until the Dodgers could put a run on the board in the ninth. It’s the 32nd scoreless outing he’s had in…
I don’t want to take anything away from Paul Maholm, who was obviously incredible tonight. After two months in the bullpen, he was asked to make a spot start with Josh Beckett on the disabled list, and Maholm was… well, I’m not even sure how to say it. This is a guy who had been one…
Hey, Andre Ethier is back in center field tonight. I guess that must mean that Don Mattingly has changed his min– Padres Dodgers 7:10pm PT Los Angeles, CA RF Denorfia 2B Gordon 3B Headley RF Puig LF Quentin 1B Gonzalez 1B Grandal LF Kemp C Rivera CF Ethier CF Maybin 3B Uribe SS Amarista C…