(Photo: Stacie Wheeler) Just over a third of the way into the 2024 season, the top of the Dodger rotation has been one of their biggest strengths. The high-profile additions …
Read More »Attempting to process the Ippei Mizuhara/Shohei Ohtani events
(Photo: Cody Bashore) You probably noticed that we haven’t covered this week’s breaking news at Dodgers Digest. This isn’t due to a lack of effort or an attempt to diminish …
Read More »Shohei Ohtani is a Dodger, now it’s time to capitalize
(Via ESPN) Shohei Ohtani is a Dodger. Boy, that feels nice to write. The Dodgers have spent over a decade making that sentence a reality. They tried when he was …
Read More »Evaluating the 4 NPB pitchers most likely to move to MLB this offseason
Yoshinobu Yamamoto (Via) The 2023 free agent market has a long list of interesting pitchers, and the Dodgers have a desperate need for more pitching. While there are several top-tier …
Read More »Dodgers @ Cubs April 23, 2023: Maybe Win A Series
Photo: Sarah Wexler The Dodgers enter this afternoon’s series finale with the Cubs having not won consecutive games since April 3rd, 4th, and 6th, when they improved their record to …
Read More »Julio Urías has a new cutter
In his first career Opening Day start, Julio Urías began the night facing the Diamondbacks’ Kyle Lewis. After getting ahead 0-2, Urías threw a wicked pitch at Lewis’ back foot, …
Read More »Evaluating international free agent RHP Kodai Senga
When Shohei Ohtani was posted after the 2017 season, he was rightfully viewed as having the best fastball among NPB starting pitchers, and it wasn’t particularly close. His slider was …
Read More »Vin Scully and the little things
A framed poster is prominently displayed on my living room wall. It is a minimalist rendering of Dodger Stadium, lights protruding above the iconic hexagonal scoreboard. The scoreboard shows that …
Read More »Andrew Heaney Has A New Pitch
When the Dodgers signed Andrew Heaney to a one-year deal before the lockout, it was viewed as a low-risk signing centered around tapping into the flashes of upside he has …
Read More »Today has been a very bad day
It’s not often that a 24-hour period in the offseason can cause this much pain, but here we are. To recap, today: The Dodgers let future hall-of-famer Max Scherzer go …
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