As great as this season has been, I’m so ready for October. But before that, the Dodgers must go through September, and with September comes roster expansion. I touched on …
Read More »Dodgers’ starters have picked up slack, again, without Clayton Kershaw
When Clayton Kershaw came out of a game against the Braves at Dodger Stadium on July 23, the collective gasp from the greater Los Angeles area was almost deafening. The …
Read More »Dodgers have built baseball’s deepest catching corps
This is normally Stacie’s territory, but I’m going to take a stab at framing just how good the Dodgers’ catching depth is. When Andrew Friedman, Farhan Zaidi and Co., took …
Read More »The domino effect of Adrian Gonzalez returning to the Dodgers’ lineup
Adrian Gonzalez homered in his seventh overall rehab game on Thursday night. It was his fifth game with the OKC Dodgers. It was his first homer in that time. He’s …
Read More »Dodgers facing tough decisions for 40-man roster spots
We’re still three weeks away from active rosters expanding from 25 players to 40 players, but the Dodgers will be facing a bit of a crunch in the days leading …
Read More »Dodgers’ front office does its job, now it’s on the players to do theirs
The easy thing to do after the last two postseasons has been to blame the front office. Hell, that seems to be the modus operandi whenever a team doesn’t win …
Read More »Dodgers among baseball’s best against left-handed pitching after disastrous 2016
Last year, we wrote a lot about the Dodgers’ historic struggles against left-handed pitching. This year, we’ve yet to touch on the subject. They’re good against lefties again, folks. One-year …
Read More »Dodgers to send 4 players to All-Star Game; Justin Turner, Alex Wood snubbed
The Dodgers are sending four — for now — players to Miami for this year’s All-Star Game. It was announced on Sunday that Cody Bellinger, Clayton Kershaw, Kenley Jansen and …
Read More »Dodgers need to aim high during July trade deadline shopping
The first two trade deadlines of the new regime have not been uninteresting. While most of the rumors you hear won’t come to fruition, there’s a good chance that the …
Read More »Cody Bellinger does another thing well: he hits in a 1-2 count
Cody Bellinger has been downright amazing in his first two months in the majors. No one saw this coming. He has been the offensive sparkplug the Dodgers have needed since the …
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