Matt Kemp‘s MRI came back positive, he’s back running around again, and Mark McGwire is singing praises about his swing returning. Nobody wants to go all-in on all of this …

The Dodgers tied today’s Spring Training bout against the Padres, 3-3, but it’s the Cactus League, so who cares? The main takeaway from today is that Josh Beckett certainly looked …

After the first four games of spring training, we’ve only seen Alex Guerrero on defense for ten innings. That’s way too small of a sample to make any judgement of …

When the Dodgers signed Cuban shortstop Erisbel Arruebarrena, if was a foregone conclusion the team would place Chad Billingsley on the 60-day disabled list to clear a 40-man roster spot …

Mailbag! Don’t forget to hit us with new questions using the form at the right. Lots of good questions today, and the lineups for today’s game against Milwaukee and old …

Today in Arizona, Joc Pederson did the second-best thing to taking a five-iron to Matt Kemp‘s ankle in terms of trying to make the team: he took Chicago’s Jake Petricka …

Dodger fans everywhere held their collective breath yesterday after Zack Greinke left his first 2014 Cactus League start with a mild calf strain (poor little cow). They’ve since exhaled. Now, …

Name Age System BA OBP SLG wOBA wRC+ WAR Yasiel Puig 23 2013 .319 .391 .534 .398 160 4.0 ’14 ZiPS .284 .354 .485 .359 n/a 3.8 ’14 Steamer .288 …

This is Zack Greinke this afternoon to Cliff Pennington: See that hop there? That’s what is being termed a “right calf strain,” one that ended his day for “precautionary reasons” because …

There’s no such thing as “too many outfielders.” We’ve been saying that forever, but can we finally agree on that, please? We already know that Matt Kemp isn’t going to …

Putting together the spring training batting statistics run-down was fun, so I’ve prepared a companion post for pitching statistics. The goal of the batting history post was to illustrate that …

I’m not really going to “recap” a spring game. I could bother with the four seconds it would take me to verify that it was actually a 4-1 Arizona win, …

It’s assumed by everyone Clayton Kershaw will start the first game of the season. He’s the ace, he pitches the first game — not unlike the second baseman batting second …

As you’ve no doubt heard, MLB has approved a new rule limiting home plate collisions between runners and catchers, and the reaction from Dodger backstops has been mixed at best. …

Name Age System BA OBP SLG wOBA wRC+ WAR Matt Kemp 29 2013 .270 .328 .395 .316 103 0.0 ’14 ZiPS .274 .339 .473 .342 N/A 2.6 ’14 Steamer .271 …